Revolutionary, unionist and socialist James Connolly is best known
for his part in organizing the bloody Easter Rising of 1916. Yet the
Rising was just one defining event in a career devoted to peaceful
activism for Irish independence, social justice for the working
class, and the rights of women. This biography traces the political
life of an unassuming advocate for nonviolent social change at the
ballot box, who later helped lead a violent insurrection to establish
an Irish Republic and was executed by a British firing squad.
