# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-connolly
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:38:25.538Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Scotland in 1868 to Irish parents, Connolly became an active socialist before moving to Ireland in 1896 and founding the country's first socialist party, the Irish Socialist Republican Party. He spent 1905 to 1910 in the United States as an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, choosing syndicalism over rigid Marxism. Back in Ireland, he worked for the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, first in Belfast — where he failed to unite Protestant workers into an all-Ireland labour movement — then in Dublin. The industrial unrest of 1913 gave him a new instrument: the union's militia, the Irish Citizen Army. At the start of 1916, he committed it to the plans for wartime insurrection. Alongside Patrick Pearse, he commanded the Easter Rising from the rebel garrison in Dublin's General Post Office, was wounded in the fighting, and after the surrender was executed with the six other signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic on 12 May 1916.