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170 years ago, Ireland was still in the grip of famine. While the potato blight was an act of nature, there was nothing natural about the consquences - a million dead and another million forced out of the country. An all the social, physical and mental shock that went with the cataclysmic late 1840s. Although there was an armed rebellion in 1848, it was too little too late and a leadership which was not reaqlly prepared for a serious insurrection - some wouldn't even chop down trees on landowners' estates to build road blocks because that would interfere with private property. The clearest voice for what needed to be done for the Irish masses to save themselves from isaster was James Fintan Lalor (1807-1849). The great Irish revolutionary workers' leader James Connolly would later say that among the republicans of that period, "the palm of honour for the clearest exposition of the doctrine of revolution, social and political, must be given to James Fintan Lalor". I've been very slowly making progress in getting Lalor's work up on The Irish Revolution blog. This is something that Lalor wrote in January 1847, addressed to Irish republican clubs across the country. It appeared in the republican newspaper 'The Irish Felon' in July 1848: https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2018/11/10/fintan-lalor-on-insurrection-land-ownership-repeal-and-saving-the-irish-masses-in-the-famine/ And here's Connolly on Lalor: https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2018/09/12/the-clearest-exposition-of-the-doctrine-of-revolution-social-and-political-connolly-on-fintan-lalor/ Phil _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
