3 Quotes & Sayings By James Connolly

James Connolly was a journalist, politician and revolutionary. He was elected to the House of Commons of the British Parliament as a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party in 1883. In April Easter 1916 he joined the Irish Volunteers and fought in the Easter Rising as a commandant at the General Post Office. In December 1917 Connolly became Chief-of-Staff of the Irish Republican Army, and in March 1919 became commander-in-chief of the Irish Republican Army Read more

He was imprisoned from June 1920 to December 1921. Connolly was captured by Crown forces on 30 November 1923, and sentenced to death for his part in the Rising. He was executed by firing squad at Kilmainham Jail on 3 April 1924.

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It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progress… What lover of humanity can view with anything but horror the prospect of this ruthless destruction of human life. Yet this is war: war for which all the jingoes are howling, war to which all the hopes of the world are being sacrificed, war to which a mad ruling class would plunge a mad world. James Connolly
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No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. James Connolly