Communist Politics in Ireland 1916-1945: Volume 1: Pursuit of the Workers' Republic in the Post-Connolly and Larkin Era, 1916-1928

First published in 1984, Mike Milotte’s classic study of Irish communism in the early twentieth century leaves no stone unturned.

The book offers a clear and meticulous reconstruction of Irish communism in the 1920s, reassessing the movement and its key figures in light of previously overlooked or misinterpreted material from the Comintern archives. Milotte follows a wide range of characters who shaped Irish communism in this period. During the revolutionary era, Roddy Connolly’s Communis...