The Irish Labor Movement

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Excerpt from The Irish Labor Movement: From the 'Twenties to Our Own DayJames Connolly declared in his Labour in Irish History that "the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries were indeed the Via Dolorosa of the Irish race. In them the Irish Gael sank out of sight, and in his place the middle-class politicians, capitalists, and ecclesiastics laboured to produce a hybrid Irishman, assimilating a foreign social system, a foreign speech, and a foreign character." Possibly the phrase "laboured to produce" is too strong, at any rate it suggests design and deliberation, and I think that the politicians, capitalists, and ecclesiastics were often unconscious of the havoc they wrought, they erred through ignorance, want of insight, failure to grasp or sympathise with the elements and growth of nationality. Sometimes it would seem that they simply drifted, having ceased to think or live in the true sense. But whatever their actual attitude there is no question as to the dire results.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.