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what if the 1916 leaders had not been executed?

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    #92
    CDfm
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    Qualitymark wrote: »
    Of course they were. As Connolly said, in an accurate forecast of what Ireland has become:


    Others say he was a good employer take this biography
    Author Biography

    Thomas J. Morrissey, SJ, is a graduate of the National University of Ireland, and a former headmaster of Crescent College Comprehensive in Limerick and president of the National College of Industrial Relations Dublin. He has written some thirteen books on Irish Labour, Ecclesiastical, Jesuit, and Educational History. These include Towards a National University: William Delany, SJ, 1835-1924 (Dublin 1983), As One Sent: Peter Kenney, SJ, 1779-1841 (Dublin 1996), William J. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, 1841-1921 (Dublin 2000), William O'Brien, 1881-1968. Socialist, Republican, and Trades Union Leader (Dublin 2007), Jesuits in Hong Kong, South China and Beyond, 1926-2006 (Hong Kong, 2008), Edward J. Byrne, 1872-1941: The Forgotten Archbishop of Dublin (Dublin 2010), and editor of Social Teaching of James Connolly (Dublin 1991).

    And here is a description from the publisher UCD Press.
    Description

    William Martin Murphy (1845-1919) was one of the most successful of Irish entrepreneurs and businessmen. As well as being a good employer, Murphy was an international financier, and a contractor of railways and tramways on three continents as well as in Britain and Ireland. He revolutionised the Irish newspaper industry, was a patriot who opposed concessions in the Home Rule Bill, supported Sinn Fein as a political party, and vigorously opposed conscription and partition. Although he was a man with a strong social conscience and sense of social responsibility, he came to be viewed as something of an ogre and regarded as the man who starved the workers of Dublin into submission in 1913-14 and who called for the execution of James Connolly in 1916. This book re-examines Murphy's remarkable career.




    http://www.ucdpress.ie/display.asp?isbn=9781906359621&

    Connolly and Murphy were at opposite parts of the Labour dispute's at the time and were also political opponents.


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    Qualitymark
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    I was cycling by the area where his house was (on Dartry Road, between Palmerston Park and Temple Road) today and looked for it, but the only thing that looked any way similar was a derelict house behind the TCD flats where Trinity Botanic Gardens used to be. But maybe I just missed it.


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