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Roderick James Connolly (11 February 1901 – 16 December 1980) was a socialist politician in Ireland. He was also known as "Roddy Connolly" and "Rory Connolly". Biography. The son of Irish socialist James Connolly and Lillie Connolly. A lieutenant in the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) boys' corps, he was involved in the 1916 Easter Rising.
4 de abr. de 2021 · Roddy Connolly, um adolescente que participara da Revolta da Páscoa, viaja sem passaporte em um cargueiro pelos fiordes noruegueses. O destino: a Rússia soviética. Quando se aproxima da costa norte da Península de Kola, o barco é desviado do curso por uma tempestade que o empurra cerca de 250 milhas em direção ao Polo Norte.
Connolly, Roderic James (‘Roddy’) (1901–80), socialist, trade unionist, and politician, was born 11 February 1901 at 54 Pimlico, Dublin, only son and sixth among seven children of James Connolly (qv), native of Edinburgh, Scotland, the socialist republican revolutionary, and Lillie Connolly (née Reynolds), native of Carnew, Co. Wicklow.
The WPI debuted to the public on May 9, 1926 at a commemoration event for James Connolly. Roddy Connolly announced the WPI as a party to resolve the questions of national and social identity which his father before him had set-out to solve.
Roddy Connolly was a leading figure in the early Irish communist movement. At the age of 15, he was involved in the Easter Rising, whose leaders included his father, James Connolly.
Roddy Connolly established two Communist parties, and was the first Irishman to describe the Anglo-Irish Treaty as treachery and Michael Collins as a traitor. He predicted the Irish civil war, and consistently argued throughout this period that the left in Ireland should support the IRA in their struggle for Irish freedom.
James Connolly was executed on 12 May 1916. He was forty-seven years old. Roddy Connolly was a member of Na Fianna Éireann and during the Rising he was transferred to the Irish Citizen Army....
