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Roderick James Connolly (11 February 1901 – 16 December 1980) was a socialist politician in Ireland. He was also known as "Roddy Connolly" and "Rory Connolly". Biography. The son of Irish socialist James Connolly and Lillie Connolly. A lieutenant in the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) boys' corps, he was involved in the 1916 Easter Rising.
Connolly, Roderic James (‘Roddy’) (1901–80), socialist, trade unionist, and politician, was born 11 February 1901 at 54 Pimlico, Dublin, only son and sixth among seven children of James Connolly (qv), native of Edinburgh, Scotland, the socialist republican revolutionary, and Lillie Connolly (née Reynolds), native of Carnew, Co. Wicklow.
Roddy Connolly was a leading figure in the early Irish communist movement. At the age of 15, he was involved in the Easter Rising, whose leaders included his father, James Connolly.
Among its members were Roddy Connolly (son of James Connolly), who served as party leader, Nora Connolly (daughter of James Connolly), Tom Lyng, the trade unionist P. T. Daly, Walter Carpenter Jnr, and Jack White.
Roddy Connolly was the son of James Connolly and a significant political figure in his own right. In a career that lasted over sixty years, he played a centr...
It examines the organisation's philosophy and membership in the years 1909-23, arguing that membership in the Fianna and exposure to the youth group's militant nationalist philosophy helped to generate active participants in the struggle for Irish independence.
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James Connolly was executed on 12 May 1916. He was forty-seven years old. Roddy Connolly was a member of Na Fianna Éireann and during the Rising he was transferred to the Irish Citizen...
