This month’s addition to the Connolly Archive is ‘Harp Strings’, first published in the ‘The Harp’ in early 1908 while James Connolly himself lived as a migrant worker in New York. Connolly wrote the article in response to friction between Irish workers and newly arrived migrant workers from southern and eastern Europe.

This month’s addition to the Connolly Archive is ‘A New Labour Policy’, a short piece first published in the ‘Worker’s Republic’ in January 1910. After seven years in the USA, Connolly returned home to Ireland in 1910.

This month’s addition to the Connolly Archive is ‘The Housing Problem from a New Standpoint’, a short piece first published in the ‘Worker’s Republic’ on 11th December 1915. In it Connolly takes up the issue of the British

This month’s addition to the Connolly Archive is ‘Conscription’, first published in the ‘Worker’s Republic’ on 27th November 1915. Just over one year into the carnival of imperialist slaughter that was the First World War, the British establishment began to hint at the coming introduction of conscription.

This month’s addition to the Connolly Archive is ‘For The Citizen Army’, first published in the ‘Worker’s Republic’ on 30th October 1915. In it Connolly states the reasons for the establishment of The Irish Citizen Army, its purpose and its goals.