ABSTRACT
James Connolly was well-known in America when he set sail from Derry to New York in 1902. His fame had preceded him through reports of his activities in the Irish American press and through his own writings in Weekly People, the paper of the Socialist Labor Party, of the United States; that party also had published in full Connolly’s pamphlet, Erin’s Hope. Not every Irish woman and man of the Famine and post-Famine generations came to embrace social and state structures built upon the subjugation of some groups so that other groups might thrive. Some Irish agitated, throughout the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth, for radical transformations of political, economic, social, and racial orders. Connolly was born and raised, lived and died, a transnational subject. He came into the world on June 5, 1868, in Scotland, in a poor and overpopulated Edinburgh neighborhood known as “Little Ireland”.
