Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: The Irish Socialist Republican Party 1896-1904 - Hardcover

Lynch, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0716533561 ISBN 13: 9780716533566

Publisher: Irish Academic Press, 2005

Synopsis

The Irish Socialist Republican Party (ISRP) was a party of seminal importance in the history of radical politics in modern Ireland. The party was the forerunner and ideological springhead for a political tradition that has had a significant impact on radical Irish politics ever since. The ISRP was the first experiment with that powerful, dynamic, yet sometimes very confused cocktail of traditional republican politics and socialist principles.

The party produced the first regular socialist paper in Ireland the Workers' Republic, ran candidates in local elections, represented Ireland at the Second International, agitated over issues such as the Boer War and the 1798 commemorations. Politically the ISRP was before its time, putting the call for an independent "Republic" at the center of its propaganda before Sinn Fein or others had done so.

This is the first full length study of this important organization. Using the primary sources available this study delves into the internal politics and personalities that brought life to the organization. The political significance of the organization led by James Connolly is also viewed in both the international and national sphere. The legacy of the ISRP was to have an impact on the left-wing and republican movements in Ireland for many decades following it's demise in 1904.
--davidlynchwriter.com

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From the Back Cover:

This illuminating and insightful book is dominated by characters that were imbued with vigour, intellect and a commitment to an improvement in the lives of working class people. This is not a partisan account, but a balanced probing of the rise and fall of the ISRP, and the result has filled a major gap in our knowledge and understanding of Irish labour history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. David Lynch has told their story lucidly, originally and fairly, and in the process rectified an unjustifiable neglect of some of the pioneers of modern socialism.
--Dr Diarmaid Ferriter Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD

About the Author:

David Lynch (32) is an award winning journalist and author with a wide range of experience in regional, national and international press. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Magill, Village,The Leinster Leader, The Sunday Business Post and Daily Ireland.

He has reported from the occupied Palestinian territories and in the wider Middle East. 'A Divided Paradise: An Irishman in the Holy Land' (2009) is his second book; his first was a historical study that focused on the early political life of James Connolly 'Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: The Irish Socialist Republican Party 1896-1904' (2005) .

He has covered everything from sport, politics, the arts, courts and is a former member of the press gallery in Dáil Éireann.
--davidlynchwriter.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0716533561
• ISBN 13: 9780716533566
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192