James Connolly and the Reconquest of Ireland by Priscilla Metscher
MEP Publications Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
116 Church Street S.E.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0112
Copyright 2002 by Priscilla Metscher
U.S.A
Review by Dr. Patrick A ODougherty, Minnesotans for a United Ireland
Classic Socialist themes!
This Minnesota socialist work has classic great themes, for example, the Founding of the Socialist Republican Party. What type of Republican Party is this? Compare Irish Socialist Republicanism to Spain’s Republican tradition.
Strike Leader!
JamesConnolly was a leader in the IWW and Industrialism. He helped lead the Irish Transport Strike, The Dublin Strike and 1913 Lockout. Connolly had a socialist answer to the woman question.
Connolly’s work raises the questions of ethnic consciousness and class conscious and Irish sovereignty. Ireland’s Revolutionaries built an escalation of radical activity leading to the Easter Rising revolution 1913-1916 and the creation of the Republic of Ireland.
Crux Position
The toughest battle point in England is the Island adjacent and closest to home. Connolly expressed this again and again in the Irish Worker. Today the Irish claim media leadership for Europe.
This is part of the stages of revolution in Ireland’s crux position in Europe.
Process Socialism
It is a process to a popular ongoing union movement and socialist triumph with economic victory leading to political victory and sovereignty. The socialist question creates a people, realizes a national identity and brings the past and present into conquest and reconquest of Ireland, Ireland!
Irony and History
Mexico and Ireland! May5,2018 Woodrow Wilson is America’s most anti-Catholic, Anti-Irish President.
False Flag Issues!
Read today, Cinco De Mayo, James Connolly’s play Under Which Flag. Woodrow Wilson commanded President Huerta to salute the American Flag. When he failed to do this Wilson invaded Mexico including Vera Cruz.
Ref. Et passim preface, contents.