Excerpt from Labour in Ireland: Labour in Irish History; The Reconquest of Ireland
James Connonlly is Ireland"s first Socialist martyr. To say so is not a rhetorical flourish. It is a simple historical fact that must be admitted even by those who dispute the wisdom of his actions and the excellence of his ideals. He died as a witness to his faith in the brotherhood of man as he wished to see it brought into being and shape in Ireland. Of all the leaders of the insurrection of Easter Monday, 1916, he was most in the tradition of Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen. Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen raised in Ireland the banner of the French Revolution. They were European as well as Nationalist in their ideas, and none the less Nationalist for being European. They believed in liberty, equality and fraternity, not as a piece, of inky or street-corner cant, but as the three golden essentials of the commonwealth.
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