The Tragedy of James Connolly

by Father Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp., D.D., D.PH., LA

Father Denis Fahey’s pamphlet, The Tragedy of James Connolly, is pre-eminently a popular, if scholarly work. Connolly can be and is being gravely misused. The fact that he died within the bosom of the Church makes his social heresies all the more a dangerous weapon in the hands of subversivists. Young and earnest trade unionists speak of him in awe, as if, from the Catholic standpoint, he were the complement of Pearse. Father Fahey’s pamphlet will disabuse them of this idea . . .. For all that Connolly was, excepting that he was a social subversivist, we honor him—for his self-sacrifice, his courage, his patriotism.
– Pat Murphy (In The Standard, Jan. 23, 1948)

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