From: jbm7-AT-tutor.open.ac.uk (Jim Monaghan)
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 18:45:14 -0000
Subject: M-I: Ireland


Some have expressed interest in the view of the Communists on the Irish
National Liberation Struggle. Can I recommend the following edited by
my friend ,the noted James Connolly scholar, D. R. O`Connor Lysaght.
The Communists and the Irish Revolution.
Published by LITEREIRE PUBLISHERS 1993
This collects the writings of Lenin,Trotsky, Radek,Nora
Connolly-O`Brien ending with Stalin.
It includes an article by Kautsky. Most of these writings were
influenced by Kautsky who took an interest in the agrarian question in
Ireland. I ,personally,  think there is a danger in taking too much
from these writings as the authors did not do a major and systematic
study of Ireland.
Lysaght is the author of a number of studies, he is worth reading in
spite of the rather tangential writing style. 
These include
"The Making of Northern Ireland"
A critique of the two nations theory.
"The Republic of Ireland"
A social and political history of the 26 Co. state.
He researched the factory occupations of the war of Independence period
known as soviets. His writings on Connolly are scattered among a number
of leftwing papers
Jim Monaghan



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