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{{short description|Irish republican and socialist leader}}
{{Other people}}
{{Infobox person
| name          = James Connolly
| image         = James_Connolly2.jpg
| alt = A side view black-and-white photo of Connelly in a suit
| caption       = Connolly in {{circa}} 1900
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(contracted; show full)ernational language, [[Esperanto]].<ref>[http://esperanto.ie/en/ireland/connolly.html James Connolly and Esperanto] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215171329/http://www.esperanto.ie/en/ireland/connolly.html |date=15 December 2016 }}, esperanto.ie; accessed 28 May 2017</ref> His expresses his belief in "the necessity of a universal language" interest in his article "The Language Movement" (''The Worker's Republic'', October 1898), wh
ichose primarily purpose of which, however, was to persuade Irish language activists to take their "proper place" in his [[Irish Socialist Republican Party]]: you cannot teach Gaelic to a people who "toil from early morning to late at night for a mere starvation wage".<ref>{{Cite web|title=James Connolly: The Language Movement (1898)|url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1898/10/language.htm|access-date=2021-03-15|website=www.marxists.org}}</ref> A short story, called ''The Agitator’s Wife'', (1894) which appeared in the ''Labour Prophet'', a short lived Christian Socialist journal, has been attributed to Connolly.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-01-15|title=Short story in 1894 journal may be lost James Connolly play|url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/15/short-story-in-1894-journal-may-be-lost-james-connolly-play|access-date=2020-12-19|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-03-01|title=Long-Lost James Connolly Play May Be Found|url=https://irishamerica.com/2019/03/long-lost-james-connolly-play-may-be-found/|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Irish America|language=en-US}}Maria-Daniella Dick, Kirsty Lusk & Willy Maley (2019) “'The Agitator’s Wife' (1894): the story behind James Connolly’s lost play?", ''Irish Studies Review'', 27:1, 1-21, DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2018.1558473</ref> 

In 1896, two months after the birth of his third daughter, word came to Connolly that the Dublin Socialist Club was looking for a full-time secretary, a job that offered a salary of a pound a week.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Kearney | first = Richard | title = The Irish mind: exploring intellectual traditions | publisher = Wolfhound Press | year = 1985 | location = Dublin | page = 200 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Q7BnAAAAMAAJ&q=%22dublin+socialist+club%22+job+that+pound+w(contracted; show full)il 2011}}</ref> James Connolly articulated its credo in "Socialism and Nationalism" published in January 1896 in the first edition of [[Alice Milligan]]'s Belfast monthly, ''[[The Shan Van Vocht]]''. Without a creed capable of challenging the rule of the capitalist, landlord and financier, the nationalism of "Irish Language movements, Literary Societies or [1798] Commemoration Committees" (in which Milligan was heavily engaged) would achieve little.<ref
 name=":0">{{cite journal|last1=Connolly|first1=James|date=January 1897|title=Socialism and Nationalism|url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1897/01/socnat.htm|journal=Shan van Vocht|volume=1|issue=1|access-date=26 January 2021}}</ref>  

Sidestepping the link Connolly proposed between national independence and socialism (the "workers' republic"), Milligan responded by taking issue with the party's early suggestion that it participate in Westminster elections. If successful, he ISRP would be drawn, she believed, into "an alliance with the English labour" no less debilitating than the courtship of English [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberals]] had proved for the [[Irish Parliamentary Party]].<ref name="Steele 1">{{cite book|last1=Steele|first1=Karen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bAG_MyaeT14C|title=Women, Press, and Politics During the Irish Revival|date=2007|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=9780815631170|location=Syracuse, New York|pages=39-40, 44-45|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref>⏎
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That a commitment to socialism might split nationalist ranks, Connolly seemed reluctant to admit. "This linking together of our national aspirations with the hopes of the men and women who have raised the standard of revolt against that system of capitalism and landlordism, of which the British Empire is the most aggressive type and resolute defender, should not", he proposed, "import an element of discord into the ranks of earnest nationalists". Rather it would give them "fresh reservoirs of moral and physical strength sufficient to lift the cause of Ireland to a more commanding position than it has occupied since the day of [[Battle of Benburb|Benburb]]".<ref name=":0" />   

Ireland's first socialist party never reached beyond 80 active members.<ref>[http://www.davidlynchwriter.com/portfolio.html Radical Politics in Modern Ireland- A History of the Irish Socialist Republican Party 1896-1904 (Irish Academic Press)], David Lynch,</ref> Connolly clashed with the ISRP's other leading light, [[E. W. Stewart|E. W. Stewart,]] and with whom he was a party candidate for Dublin City Council. In [[1902 Dublin Corporation election|March1902 municipal elections]] (contracted; show full)[[Category:Members of the Socialist Labor Party of America]]
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