for lefties too stubborn to quit
Fascinating article over at the Irish History Podcast site.
The Forgotten Emigrants – Irish American Radicals in the early 20th century.
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Tangentially, one of my favorite Irish-radicals-in-America factoids comes from Emmet Larkin’s biography of Jim Larkin: when Larkin was in Galveston, TX, he knew Jack Johnson. This is one of those things that seems perfect once you know and cries out to be put on stage.
Does anyone know any more about it?
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I have also been told that Charlie Chaplin visited Larkin while Larkin was in jail over there. And that Chaplin subbed for the care and education of Larkin’s family at the same time. True, anyone?
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And there was also this:
Secret dossier reveals Sinn Féin plot to kill labour leader ‘Big’ Jim Larkin
http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1999/08/03/ihead_22.htm
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No reflection on you MC, but i’ ve read about more plausible plots (the replacement with a Jim Larkin look-a-like was a nice touch though)
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Tom or T.J. O’Flaherty. Brother of Liam.
IWW member, founder of CPUSA, founder of American Trotskyism. Editor of Labor Defender. Associated wit “An t-Eireannach” journal on return to Ireland in 30s.
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William Z. Foster, wobbly, and extraordinary union organizer, general secretary Communist Party, U.S.A. was the son of a Fenian from County Carlow. He’s buried in Moscow.
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Let’s not forget Jack Carney, Larkin’s associate and editor of the socialist Duluth Truth and the Irish Worker. He also organized the Jim Larkin Defense Committees and wrote Convict 50945: Jim Larkin, Irish Labour Leader which the Cork Workers Club reprinted. And Con Lehane (also spelled O’Lyhane). He wrote a pamphlet about Connolly’s participation in the Easter Rising, was arrested for opposing WWI and died soon after his release from prison in 1919.
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