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Roderick James Connolly (11 February 1901 – 16 December 1980) was a socialist politician in Ireland. He was also known as "Roddy Connolly" and "Rory Connolly". Biography. The son of Irish socialist James Connolly and Lillie Connolly. A lieutenant in the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) boys' corps, he was involved in the 1916 Easter Rising.
Connolly, Roderic James (‘Roddy’) (1901–80), socialist, trade unionist, and politician, was born 11 February 1901 at 54 Pimlico, Dublin, only son and sixth among seven children of James Connolly (qv), native of Edinburgh, Scotland, the socialist republican revolutionary, and Lillie Connolly (née Reynolds), native of Carnew, Co. Wicklow.
- Lenin and The Easterrising
- The Easter Rising in Anera of Decolonization
- Translating The Easterrising Into Bolshevik Russian
- Jamesconnolly: The ‘Irish Lenin’
The most famous Sovietencounter with the Rising was Lenin’s. As Connolly’s army tookthe General Post Office in Dublin and raised the Irish tricolour,Lenin was in the throes of writing his theory of imperialism andnational self-determination. Sensing that events in Ireland wereconfirming his new perspective, Lenin embraced the Rising as adecisive “b...
Yet as it became clear thatrevolution had failed to materialize in the west, Bolshevik attentionshifted towards the liberation movements of the Global South. In thischanging context, post-War Soviet interpretations of the EasterRising went through a subtle transformation. Now reframed as aspecifically anti-colonial struggle akin to those taking pla...
Yet, despite all theenthusiasm, Soviet writers had long struggled to get to grips withthe complexities of class, religion and nationality in the Irishcontext. When HG Wells arrived at the Kremlin in 1920, Party leaderGrigorii Zinoviev quizzed him on the Easter Rising, asking “whichdo you consider are the proletarians, the Sinn Feiners of theUlsterm...
Given Lenin’s high praiseof James Connolly, it is not surprising that most Soviet treatmentsof the Easter Rising placed great emphasis on him. In the 1960s, whenthe Rising had become increasingly revered, even mythologized in theBolshevik press, Soviet writers were routinely referring to Connollyas the “Irish Lenin”. Yet earlier Sovietassessments h...
Among its members were Roddy Connolly (son of James Connolly), who served as party leader, Nora Connolly (daughter of James Connolly), Tom Lyng, the trade unionist P. T. Daly, Walter Carpenter Jnr, and Jack White.
Roddy Connolly participated in the Easter rising of 1916 as a boy of fifteen years of age. He was one of the few Irish politicians who met Lenin, the Soviet leader. He was instrumental in founding Ireland’s first Communist Party.
- Charlie McGuire
Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in Ireland. Roddy Connolly was the son of James Connolly and a significant political figure in his own right. In a career that lasted over sixty years, he played a centr...
22 gen 2022 · Connolly, who became chairman of the Irish Labour Party, would try to play down his communist past, and never again mentioned robbing banks. He died in 1980, just weeks short of his...
