biography
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| lived:
| (1868–1916)
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| biography:
| Irish political leader and insurgent, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. He joined the British army at the age of 14, and was stationed in the Curragh and Dublin, but deserted to get married to an Irish girl in Scotland. Returning to Ireland in 1896, he organized the Irish Socialist Republican Party and founded The Workers' Republic, the first Irish Socialist paper. He toured the USA as a lecturer (1902–10), and helped found the Industrial Workers of the World (‘Wobblies’). Back in Ireland, he organized Socialist ‘citizen armies’, and after taking part in the Easter rebellion (1916) he was arrested and executed. |
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