Labour in Irish History and The Re-conquest of Ireland. With an Introduction by Robert Lynd. Dublin: Maunsel, 1910. First Edition. Pp xvi,216, uncut. Publisher’s blue cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to upper cover & spine. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to cloth, contents in nice bright condition. Housed in collectors’ solander box.

Signed and inscribed on front pastedown: “To W. Stewart  from his comrade James Connolly
Nov 3 /11′

William Stewart from Belfast, was associated with the Socialist Party of Northern Ireland. 

James Connolly’s achievements were as a labour leader. In Belfast he led a successful docker’s strike. In Dublin he worked with Jim Larkin in the Irish Transport and General Worker’s Union, organising a series of strikes which culminated in the unsuccessful 1913 Dublin Lock-out. He set up the Irish Citizen Army to defend the workers. He is best remembered for his part in the 1916 Rising and his execution by firing squad, although injured and unable to stand, in Kilmainham Jail.

Extremely rare with signature