The Lost & Early Writings of James Connolly w/ Conor McCabe
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In this exciting episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on the editor of the newly released The Lost & Early Writings of James Connolly: 1889 - 1898, a groundbreaking work that fits wonderfully within our Sources and Methods series of episodes. Dr. Conor McCabe has done an incredible job of piecing together part of the lost James Connolly writings, and showing Connolly's engagement and adherence with Marxism, applied within the Irish national context. You won't want to miss this conversation! This book was published by Iskra Books, which means that in addition to the book being available as a beautiful print edition, the PDF is also available for free at iskrabooks.org. Of course download the PDF, but do also consider picking up a physical copy to support Iskra in their project of publishing revolutionary works and making them as accessible and freely available as possible!
Conor McCabe is a historian, author, and scholar specializing in labor history, Irish socialism, and radical political movements. His extensive research has brought new insights into the intersections of class, colonialism, and economic power in Ireland. In addition to the Connolly book discussed today, he also has written Sins of the Father: Tracing the Decisions That Shaped the Irish Economy and has multiple projects ongoing. Keep up to date with him on his website, and be sure to follow him on twitter @CMacCaba
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| 0:15.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, unfortunately not joined by my usual co-host today, |
| 0:45.2 | Professor Adnan Hussein, who of course is a historian and the director of School of Religion |
| 0:49.3 | at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, is unable to join us today. He's off giving a lecture at Berkeley that he was invited for, and hopefully on the show soon |
| 0:58.2 | we'll be able to hear about that lecture. |
| 1:00.9 | It's talking about the crusading society and imperialism, so something that I'm sure, |
| 1:05.6 | listeners, you all will want to hear more about and something that we've chatted about on our Patreon |
| 1:11.7 | a bit before as well as in other episodes. But in any case, without a nun, we still have a |
| 1:18.4 | terrific guest about a really fascinating and important, and in many ways, groundbreaking, new book. |
| 1:24.8 | But before I introduce the guest and this work, I want to remind you listeners that |
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| 1:44.5 | collectively by following us on Twitter at Gorilla underscore Pod. That's again, G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A |
| 1:51.9 | underscore pod. So, as I mentioned, we have a really terrific guest today about a groundbreaking |
| 1:57.8 | new book. We're joined by Connor McCabe, who's a historian, |
| 2:01.7 | author, and scholars specializing in labor history, Irish socialism and radical political movements. |
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