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15 May, 2008

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James Connolly remembered in Belfast

JAMES CONNOLLY’S house on the Falls Road in Belfast was the venue for a ceremony on Monday, 12 May, to mark the 92nd anniversary of his execution on 12 May 1916.
As well as remembering James Connolly, the crowd paid silent tribute to Derry Hunger Striker Francis Hughes, whose 27th anniversary also falls on 12 May.
Connolly lived with his family in Belfast for a number of years when he worked as a union organiser in the city.
The main speaker at the event was Sinn Féin Councillor Tom Hartley, who reinforced the message of Connolly, the socialist and republican, whose political view was to see Ireland and the cause of the Irish working class as one and the same.
Hartley, reflecting on how Connolly would have seen the women mill workers trundling to work along the Falls Road to work 12 to 14-hour days in the mills dotted throughout the city, said that to this day the lot of the working class is still one of low-paid and unskilled employment.

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