The Life and Times of James Connolly. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1961. First Edition. A fine bright copy in dust jacket.

A landmark biography that chronicles Connolly’s journey from his birth in Edinburgh in 1868 to his execution for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising.

Greaves, a British-based Marxist historian and secretary of the Connolly Association, brought a unique blend of scholarly rigor and  to the work. He traces his development as a revolutionary socialist and trade union organiser, from his early political awakening in Scotland and his founding of the Irish Socialist Republican Party in Dublin, through a formative seven-year period in the United States where he worked with the Socialist Labor Party and helped found the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

The narrative culminates with his return to Ireland, his central role in the tumultuous 1913 Dublin Lock-out, and his ultimate path to the Easter Rising, where he was executed by British forces