Connolly Books
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Ireland's oldest radical bookshop; since 1932. 📚 Local Publisher 🤝 Community Hub 📣 Working Class Historians
Joined November 2016
The History of Connolly Books. The culture of 1930s Ireland were not receptive to socialist ideas. From the first Coercion Act (1930) under the Free State government of William Cosgrave's Cumann na nGaedheal to de Valera's @fiannafailparty, socialism was considered subversive.
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We stand with 🇵🇸 🇱🇧🇮🇷🇮🇪.
I stand with Israel. 🇮🇱 🇬🇧.
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"Why do Irish people have an affinity towards the Palestinians?".
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Long live the heroic Palestinian people!.Long live their steadfast resistance!.Victory is certain!.🇵🇸
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Don't buy books from Amazon!
The Dublin centre is Amazon's first such facility in Ireland and the company says it provides faster delivery for customers across the country, including one-day delivery on hundreds of thousands of items
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We can confirm that the latest book on @MaryLouMcDonald will not be stocked in our shop. We are yet to develop a comedy section. However, we will keep you posted.
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Some would have you believe that history began on Saturday just gone. We have been flying the flag of Palestine - not since last week, not since last month, not since last year - but for DECADES. And we will continue to fly it! FREE, FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪.
Long live the heroic Palestinian people!.Long live their steadfast resistance!.Victory is certain!.🇵🇸
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Very happy to welcome @jeremycorbyn to the shop over the weekend and present him with the collected works of James Connolly ✊
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Great turn out in Dublin today 🇵🇸🇮🇪. Stop the bombs. End the occupation. Free Palestine!
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"Apostles of freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive" - James Connolly.
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Queer liberation, not rainbow capitalism!. Happy Pride ✊
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@Reaverbean We use our national postal service and it depends on the weight. Up 500g - €22.50, up to 1kg - €27, up to 1.5kg - €36 etc.
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In 1867 Marx wrote to Engels: “I used to think the separation of Ireland from England impossible. I now think it inevitable.” “The English working class will never accomplish anything until it has got rid of Ireland. English reaction is rooted in the subjugation of Ireland” 1/3
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Trump or Harris. Democrat or Republican. Makes no difference. The empire is dying while a new multipolar world struggles to be born
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As over 27,000 US tourists visit Dublin this weekend for the Florida State University vs Georgia Tech American football game, we were very glad to welcome Palestinian Georgia Tech supporters to the shop today ✊🇮🇪🇵🇸
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Open til 6pm. Connolly Conversations gets going at 3.30pm ✊
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We need to stand up and defend our neutrality.
This is our "Neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland!" moment. Say no to Irish children being sent to kill and be killed in foreign wars! .#SavetheTripleLock.#NeutralityNotNATO.More info here:
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1. No other figure in history has been as widely condemned as Joseph Stalin, so much so that even those who would claim very little knowledge of history or politics know that Stalin was one of history’s greatest monsters. But was he?. Available now.
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We're saying Vote @claredalymep at the European elections in Dublin. Make sure to get your vote out on June 7th 🔵🔵 ✊🇮🇪🙌
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We raise the flag today in solidarity with our brothers & sisters in #Palestine , particularly those in East Jerusalem who have come under sustained attack of late. For more info: @ipsc48. #EndIsraeliApartheid.#FreePalestine
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Free Palestine tees in Black or White . Sizes S to XXL. 20% of profits go to Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Black - White -
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Today is Nakba Day, as Palestinians mourn expulsion from their homeland - a campaign of dispossession & ethnic cleansing. We're marking the day at Dalymount Park as @bfcdublin take on the Palestine national team. We just finished assembling flags to every seat in the stadium 🇵🇸✊
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After a brief break, we re-open tomorrow from 11am. Wishing you all a fruitful 2025 🙌 . Let's look out for one another. Check in on your neighbour. Give your mate a hug. Challenge inequality. Dare to win ✊
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What an incredible achievement from @bfcdublin Beyond the financial, the evening gave hope to millions of people. We were proud to be part of such an occasion. Now is the time to continue supporting the people of Palestine as best we can. Free Palestine 🙌🇵🇸🇮🇪
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The use of Shannon airport has been in the news a lot recently. Read @wallacemick & @ClareDalyIRL book on the increasing militarisation of the EU and Ireland's role in war crimes committed in the Middle East. #USMilitaryOutOfShannon .
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Great to see a full house at Dalymount Park last night. We are glad to be the official bookseller of @bfcdublin , a member-owned football club with great values and rooted in it's community. Turn off the telly and get to your local sporting grounds!.
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Brilliant journalism from @wereontheditch Shame on @rtenews.
A fourth Israel-bound cargo flight flew over Irish sovereign airspace this year, carrying 27 arming devices that were, according to shipping records, “to be used in the Arrow 3 missile interceptor for end use by the Israel Ministry of Defence”.
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The Ministry of Health in Gaza has just published a 649-page document with the the name, age, gender, ID number of every Palestinian killed in Gaza from October 7 to August 31 that it has info for (over 34k out of 40k). The 1st 14 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year old)
Marking a year in my post as Ambassador to Ireland, I still try to understand why many in Ireland have selective empathy for Israeli people and why Hamas’s disinformation & abusive methods are not criticised & condemned. Read the full op-ed:.
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🇵🇸 NEW ARRIVAL 🇵🇸. We're providing 3,500 Palestine flags for the upcoming match between Bohs & Palestine at Dalymount Park on May 15th. The initiative is in collaboration with @BangBangD7 and @bfcdublin . Tickets for the match are still available .
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Lovely morning in Dublin 🇮🇪. Open til 5.30pm today comrades
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Comrade Pope
Our societies are too enslaved to market logic, and everything risks being subject to self-interest and the quest for profit. Volunteering is prophecy and a sign of hope, because it bears witness to the primacy of gratuitousness, solidarity, and service to those most in need.
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For over two decades the Irish government has allowed Shannon airport to be used as a United States military base to facilitate its endless imperialist wars, which have destroyed the lives of millions. Written by @ClareDalyMEP and @wallacemick.
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Please don't make Jeff Bezos any richer. Support your local bookstore. We're back open to the public!.Tues-Sat, 10:00-17:30
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Thanks to all who joined us last week for Palestine Solidarity Market. €4,383 was raised & will go towards the important work of @ipsc48. It has been a bruising year watching the wanton cruelty unfold in Palestine. Love & solidarity to Palestinian brothers & sisters ✊❤️. 🇮🇪🇵🇸
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We are all shocked and saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Manus O' Riordan and we extend our sincerest condolences to all the O' Riordan family at this difficult time.
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Many will be surprised as to how extensively Marx & Engels wrote on Ireland. This third edition (1978) copy is over 500 pages long, in good condition and available at today's Marxist Bookfair.
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@DanaErlich The barbarous acts of Zionist scum are indefensible. We will never forgive, we will never forget. Shame on you.
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@GaryDevineEire @MaryLouMcDonald We will sell whatever books we like. A tiny bookshop has no say in 'censorship' . That's the role of the state. Good luck to ye.
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Delighted to announce, we raised €2,250.50 in support of @ipsc48 at our Palestine Solidarity Market on Saturday. We'll more than likely do something similar again soon. In the meantime, our next Kathleen Lynn Women’s Book Club is this Thursday 6pm! New faces welcome.
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@ciaranmcp @MaryLouMcDonald By that logic, we would be required to stock every book that ever gets published. That's not how it works, and we will stock whatever books we deem fit for our shelves Ciaran.
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🚨 N E W 🚨. In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on the Middle East where his internationally bestselling The Great War of Civilisation left off. #RobertFisk #MiddleEast .
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The non-corporate box will be unavailable to rent or buy. Instead, it'll be offered to those who improve Bohs & community - local mens shed groups, inner city youth services, service users of Focus Ireland among others. Reject corporatisation, Protect working class culture ✊.
Bohemian FC and Des Kelly Interiors are delighted to announce the opening of the Dalymount Non-Corporate Box. 🔴⚫️. We’ve a competition for 10 fans to win access for our home league game on August 9th on Instagram. Full information:
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An bhfuil sibh ag iarraidh bhur gcuid Gaeilge a chleachtadh? Bígí linn i gcóir coircal comhrá Connolly Books. We host a conversation group for Irish speakers every Friday, 1 - 2.30pm: Connolly Books, 43 East Essex St, Dublin 2. All welcome!. #Gaeilge #irishlanguage #irishculture
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Few formulations of 🇮🇪 suffering under 🇬🇧 rule were as explicit as those of Marx & Engels in focusing away from explanations of British villainy, concentrating instead on material factors & the conjoined expansion of capitalism in Britain and underdevelopment in Ireland 2/3.
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@1rorycowan @DanaErlich No person of conscience would support the racist, Zionist, apartheid state of Israel.
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Some visitors from Germany ahead of making their way towards Dalymount Park tonight for Bohs v Shels. We told them to look out for our signage 😀. @bfcdublin. #Bohs #LOI #BOHSHE.⚫🔴
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Our solidarity, both political and financial, extends well before what has unfolded since Oct 7th 2023. Whilst we could not hold our annual Palestine Market in aid of @ipsc48 recently - we are donating a percentage of profits from Palestinian items 🇵🇸🇮🇪.
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1/2 Free Palestine t-shirts available. Sizes S to XXL. Black - .
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This book presents a number of writings, correspondence, articles and others representing views and developing analyses by Marx and Engels around the question of Ireland and in particular, its relation to Britain 3/3.
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Delighted to see @kthalps in the shop today 🙌 . The @KatieHalperShow will do a live recording with special guests @TadhgHickey Danny Morrison & Asad Abushark with music by Aziz Abushark and Seán Mulrooney in @FumballyExch July 24th, 7pm. Tickets 🎟️.
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An extraordinary endorsement from Norman Finkelstein for @ClareDalyMEP . A loss of Clare's seat is a victory for the Israeli government and their actions. Vote Clare no. 1. 🇵🇸.
Thank you, Norman Finkelstein 🙏🙏. For 5 years I've used my MEP seat to speak up for peace & decency, to forge ties & help grow the international peace movement. That work is needed more than ever. Vote Clare Daly No.1 to make sure it continues. #Daly4Dublin #EUelections2024
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🥰 Huge congratulations to Johnny Afolabi who has today been named SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers Ireland Player of the Month for July. 👏
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Amazing stuff from Bohs, bualadh bos 👏. 🇮🇪 🇵🇸. 🔴⚫.
'Every child has a right to play'. Our 2023 away kit, in partnership with Palestine Sport for Life 🇵🇸⚽️🇮🇪. Shirt sales will raise funds to bring football and other sports to children in Tulkarem Camp, West Bank. 👉
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'I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.'. Nelson Mandela, born on this day in 1918 🎂
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1/3 Happy #RedBooksDay ✊Today we celebrate the work of Palestinian Marxist Ghassan Kanafani . "Imperialism has laid its body over the world, the head in Asia, heart in Middle East, arteries in Africa & Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage & serve World Revolution."
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Connolly Books - hated by the Church since 1932 - is, and always has been, a meeting place for radicals, outsiders and revolutionaries. Queer liberation, not rainbow capitalism! #DublinPride
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1/5. It's #SocialistSunday and no better time to acquaint yourself with Marxism. Here are some texts to set you on your way 👇
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For over 90 years we've kept the writings of James Connolly alive. Get 3 seminal works by Connolly for the very special price of €12. Available now 👇. #SocialistSunday #IrelandsOldestRadicalBookshop.
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1/3 Colonialism is at the heart of making sense of Irish history & contemporary politics across the island of Ireland. In this analysis, England's oldest colony is considered in the context of the history of global colonisation & anti-colonial politics.
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Essential reading 📚.
Just finished reading and notating this meticulously researched book. My own ignorance shocked me as much as the chronicled atrocities.
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Happy to announce, we'll be back open to the public on May 25th! . Get it in your diaries and make sure to pop in for a browse. 📚☕️
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A visit from stalwart of the Irish communist movement & volunteer of the shop for decades. Sean Edwards was a founding member of the Irish Anti Apartheid Movement, Irish Anti Nuclear Movement, Dublin Housing Action Committee & Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign to name a few✊
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First published in 71, 'How to Read Donald Duck' shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in cartoons. The book examines how Disney comics not only reflect capitalist ideology, but are active agents working in this ideology's favour. Available in store now
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Fully stocked in Palestine flags now in sizes Large (5 X 3 ft) and Medium (3 X 2 ft). If you ordered from Ireland over the weekend they should be with you before the weekend's protests.
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We are completely taken aback by the wonderful and loving response we received today in support of @ipsc48. A massive donation of books and the shelves of Palestinian goods were emptied!. We'll have the final amount raised soon. Thank you so much ❤️. #FreePalestine.
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Delighted to announce a partnership with @bfcdublin that sees us become the club's official bookshop. The club ethos; fan-owned w/ community activism is to be cherished. Its now time to translate that work to the pitch. Go n-éirí an bóthar libh Bohs 🔴⚫️.
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Wishing everyone a good new year. Over the past year we've shared our space with fellow travellers in the sphere of progressive thinking, social justice & humanity. Let us use this period of reflection & the tool of reading to build towards a new Ireland and a better world ✊
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Today marks 15 years since the passing of Connolly Column soldier in the International Brigades and a founder of the @irelandcp, Michael O'Riordan. Read more about this pre-eminent Irish communist of the twentieth century through his biography:.
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1/5 'Rent Strike 1970-73 by Fiadh Tubridy and produced by @CatuIreland . Between 1970 and 1973 rent strikes erupted throughout Ireland as tenants fought back against high rents, poor housing conditions and rising living costs. Available now.
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New from @CMacCaba via @iskrabooks This groundbreaking collection brings together James Connolly's earliest articles, letters, and speeches, many of which have remained unpublished or inaccessible for over a century. PRE-ORDER NOW✍️.SHIPPING 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇸🌏.
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