Leaders and Workers

Leaders and Workers

Here are the portraits of Nine Men (William Thompson, John Doherty, Feargus O Connor, Bronterre O Brien, James Fintan Lalor, Micheal Davitt, William Walker, James Conolly, James Larkin) whose lives between them span a century and a half, linking the days of the united Irishmen with our Own. They include a forerunner of Marx, Chartists, Trade Union pioneers, champions or tenant farmers, and women rights, leader in the Irish and British Labour Movements. Though they came from different background, each of them, whether reformer or revolutionary, thinker or organizer, radical or democrat or socialist- and some filled most of these roles desired, like Thomas Russell, to alter conditions in which property was put before life. Even the least successful gave their followers in bleak and bitter times a fresh sense of human dignity and informed them with some of their own passion for the creation of a society freed from inequality and injustice. It is this passion that makes the lives and ideas of these nine Irishmen continuing interest today.

J. W. Boyle 

The Mercier Press

1978

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