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A NEL paperback first edition, 1968, of Emmet Larkin's biography of James ( Jim ) Larkin. Labour leader, organiser, socialist, orator and agitator, and icon of the left.
Larkin was a hugely influential labour leader, involved in socialist labour politics on both sides of the Atlantic, a founder of the US Communist party, a revolutionary syndicalist, a sometime Bolshevik, a recruitera and founder of the ITGWU, the main union force behinfd the events of the 1913 Dublin lockout, and a fierce anti war agitator during WW1.
Heavy edgewear to covers, internally heavily age spotted, indexed, 306 pp, a serious , well written personal and political biography of an intriguing figure in 20th century history. Binding tight, no underlining etc.
Emmet Larkin ( no relation to James) went on to be a noted historian of Irish history and of Irish Catholicism.
