Studies in Irish radical leadership Lives on the left [Hardcover]

By European standards, the left in Ireland has not been successful historically, yet its failure has concealed considerable achievement in the occasional great popular mobilisations of the past two centuries. In the process, virtually every shade of radical thought has found expression in Ireland at some point or other, and the country has produced a diverse and colourful range of social rebels. Studies in Irish radical leadership, an edited collection of nineteen biographies of labour leaders and radical activists, examines a sample of the men and women who made that history of protest. Looking over the shoulders of Connolly and Larkin, it provides fascinating insights into the careers and mentalities of Irish labour's second-string leaders. It ranges from the primitive rebels of the early nineteenth century to the parliamentarians of the late twentieth, and asks what kind of people they were, what motivated them, and what is leadership?
Introduction John Cunningham and Emmet O'Connor
Primitive rebels
1. Captain Rock Terry Dunne
2. The mayor/admiral of Claddagh John Cunningham
Early socialists
3. Patrick O'Higgins Christine Kinealy
4. William Upton Fintan Lane
Pioneering trade unionists
5. Michael McKeown Laurence Marley
6. Mary Galway Therese Moriarty
7. Catherine Mahon S?le Chuinneag?n
Communists
8. Se?n Murray Emmet O'Connor
9. Betty Sinclair Patrick Smylie
Children of the revolution
10. N?ra Connolly M?irt?n ? Cath?in
11. Se?n Dowling Dominic Haugh
Mavericks
12. Bobby Burke Tony Varley
13. Paddy Devlin Connal Parr
Artists as socialists
14. P?draig ? Conaire Aindrias ? Cathasaigh
15. Harry Kernoff and Leslie Daiken Katrina Goldstone
Socialists in parliament
16. Justin Keating Lorna Siggins
17. Tom?s MacGiolla Brian Hanley
Party leaders
18. William Norton Niamh Puirs?il
19. Brendan Corish Barry Desmond
Index

Emmet O'Connoris LecturlÓ