Kieran Allen: The Politics Of James Connolly [2016] paperback Condition:Good Bea Shandon

Bea Shandon

author of Dirty Little Secrets

In the period covered here (1960-75) Isaiah Berlin creates Wolfson College

and our need to know our neighbours every bit as great'

at the hands of a new usurper

Kieran Allen: The Politics Of James Connolly [2016] paperback Condition:Good Bea ShandonBorn in 1868 and executed by the British in 1916 for his role in the Easter Rising, the work of Irish national hero James Connolly has long been misunderstood. From Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein, to conservative Irish nationalists and the Church, many groups have claimed Connolly as their own, his ideas and strategies used and distorted to justify particular political positions. Kieran Allen breaks this mould, assessing the founder of the Irish Marxist