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