To the Leaders of Our Working People (Classics of Irish History).
Author: O’GRADY, Standish James.
Publisher: University College Dublin Press, 2002. xxiv, 119 pages. Paperback.
To the Leaders of Our Working People contains Standish James O’Grady’s important but little-known pieces from The Irish Worker, written in 1912-13. Although O’Grady has usually been regarded as a Protestant unionist, he was always a maverick and, later in fife, shared the columns of The Irish Worker with socialists such as Jim Larkin, James Connolly and Sean O’Casey. He makes militant statements against capitalism and uses military vocabulary to advocate a commune system. He would not have supported armed insurrection, yet his rhetoric is a stirring call for action. Standish James O’Grady (1846-1928) is known principally for his two-volume History of Ireland published in 1878 and 1880 and for his role in the Irish Literary Revival. He worked as a journalist on the Daily Express, the Dublin-based unionist newspaper, until 1898; after 1898 he edited his own newspapers and wrote for others including The Irish Worker.
ISBN: 190062141x
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