- Published: 15 November 2015
- ISBN: 9781473519572
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 336
James Connolly
My Search for the Man, the Myth and his Legacy
- Published: 15 November 2015
- ISBN: 9781473519572
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 336
a republican insider’s disabused account of the fanatical mind, akin to Eric Hofer’s Seventies classic True Believers
Michael Burleigh, Books of the Year, Evening Standard
Extraordinary and insightful
Spectator blog
extraordinary and insightful new biography of James Connolly – a magnificent reconsideration of the myths surrounding the Republican ‘hero’ and his warped place in the Republican mindset.
The Spectator
Two fine new books, Sean O’Callaghan’s James Connolly: My Search for the Man, the Myth and His Legacy…rightly emphasise the vicious hatred, fanaticism and lust for revenge of the rebellion’s ringleaders
Andrew Roberts, The Sunday Times, News Review
a brave, hostile account of the life of Pearse’s socialist co-conspirator and martyr, James Connolly
Daily Telegraph
[An] insightful and intense critique of the Rising’s most important socialist martyr
Quadrant