Home / Authors / James Connolly

James Connolly

James Connolly Quotes

Political leader

James Connolly was an Irish political leader born on June 5, 1868, and died on May 12, 1916. He was a prominent figure in the Irish nationalist and socialist movements, playing a significant role in the planning and leadership of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Filter quotes by topic

All Republican Ireland Ifs Army Socialist Capitalist Fighting Flags Green Men People Republic British Class Democracy Irishmen Labour Mean Movement Revolutionary

Famous James Connolly Quotes

“Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.”

Home Behinds Towns Green Flags Orange Employers Cloaks Racks Slums Landlord Sweatshops Erin Festering Home Rule

Author:James Connolly

“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs”

Source: Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts

“If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.”

Ifs Would Be Effort Army Green Vain Remove Republic Flags Socialist Castles Organisation Morrow Dublin

Book:James Connolly: Selected Writings

Source: James Connolly: Selected Writings

“However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.”

Men May Sea Citizens Ocean Men And Women Ideals Army Independent Flying Flags Ireland Sovereign Centre

Book:Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week

Source: Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week

About the Author

Born: June 5, 1868
Died: May 12, 1916
Known for: Political leader
Quotes: 35

Related Topics

Republican Ireland Ifs Army Socialist Capitalist Fighting Flags Green Men People Republic British Class Democracy Irishmen Labour Mean Movement Revolutionary

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

James Connolly: Selected WritingsRelated source material

Labour in Irish HistoryRelated source material

Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalismRelated source material

Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in PartsRelated source material

Collected Works: Labour and Easter WeekRelated source material

Socialism and the Irish Rebellion: Writings from James ConnollyRelated source material

The re-conquest of IrelandRelated source material

Similar Authors

Bobby SandsBrowse related quotes
Patrick PearseBrowse related quotes
Liam MellowsBrowse related quotes
Wolfe ToneBrowse related quotes
Ian PaisleyBrowse related quotes
Bernadette DevlinBrowse related quotes
Phil BabbBrowse related quotes
Katharine TynanBrowse related quotes
Albert ReynoldsBrowse related quotes
Lady GregoryBrowse related quotes