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Labour History articles
Added online, Dec. 8th 2007 - updated January 14th 2009
Looking over the material on the site, Ireland and the Spanish Civil War, I noticed that there are a number of them that would be of interest to Labour History people, or to our American friends, Labor history.
Ciaran Crossey, Belfast
Pat Read
Among the material are a series of articles by Pat Read, an Irish volunteer in Spain. These articles, from a CPI paper in 1922-23, are irrelevant to the SCW but are of interest both because his Spanish involvement, but also for general Labour history. Read them here..
I've added a pamphlet he wrote, Chicago Replies to Moscow, a strong attack on Marxism, especially the Moscow regime, and this is a 4 page pdf document.
Charlie Donnelly
- Portrait of a Revolution. An interview with a German emigre in Left Review, Vol. 2 No. 1 October 1935
- International Press Correspondence Three articles from 1935-6 by CD on Irish political developments. IPC was the journal of the Comintern, the international movement led by the Communist Parties.
- Connolly and Casement A 1935 article on these 2 Irish politicians.
Other Pieces
- Irish Labour Movement Responses to the SCW
- The Connolly House Siege – Eugene Downings memoirs of an unlikely attacker!!
- The Storming of Connolly House Brian Hanley in History Ireland Volume 7 (2), Summer 1999, p5-7
- A Shop Stewart Remembers A 1986 article from Saothar, journal of the Irish Labour History Society. This is a memoir about long standing activist, Malachy Gray.
- Notes on the Socialist Party of Northern Ireland.
- The last days of Lieutenant Jakov Stalin by Red Cushing
- Eugene Downing - Dublin in the 1930s
- British and Irish Students at the International Lenin School, Moscow, 1926-37
- The Irish in the Lenin School - comment by Eugene Downing
- A recently uncovered 1939 letter from Mick O'Riordan on Irish history and politics.
- Curragh internment Camp activities Letter from Mick O’Riordan to Cyril Sexton, 1942.
- Memories of the Republican Congress 1934-84 by Patrick Byrne, joint secretary with Frank Ryan and Frank Edwards Irish Democrat, May 1984
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