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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 10h

Ad for transatlantic sailings from New York to Ireland and Liverpool in the 1930s, "Daily Celebration of Mass on Board."

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Been asked to say a few words on Winifred Carney for the launch of @ucdcolr.bsky.social tomorrow so did up a small zine for the occasion

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

James Connolly in Oxford in October 1901, knocking out three or four yahoos with a broken flag pole.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Got this from the book seller in George's Arcade today, rare to find it with the original dust cover, and in (reasonably) good condition as well. The 1948 Three Candles press edition of Socialism and Nationalism, with a "Get Well Soon" card inside the back leaf.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a small town in possession of a good author, must be in want of a parade.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

First of the book launches confirmed, Thursday 12 November in Red Books, Wexford, as part of the Frederick Douglass Festival.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

@iskrabooks.bsky.social have just announced that the second volume of Connolly's complete works will be released on 30 October. This volume will contain all of his shorter works, as a writer and editor, including the '98 Readings and letters which have never been republished.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Spent the last four weeks checking each line against the originals, but finally got it finished tonight. The Complete Shorter Works. Every pamphlet and booklet written/edited by Connolly, with a number of previously unpublished letters included as an appendix. On course for late autumn release.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

James Connolly on a stretcher after the Easter Rising surrender, at the junction of what is now Parnell St and Cavendish Row, just before he was carried to Dublin Castle (via Capel St).

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I think one of the hardest elements to get across in any article on James Connolly and the British army will be that the story of his enlistment in the King's Liverpool is based on little more than Captain Robert Monteith picking it because one of its volunteer regiments wore kilts.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In National Archives Kew and found John Connolly ("James Reid"), brother of James, in the muster rolls of the Border Regiment, 1881. His army recruitment file hasn't survived but it appears from when he moved battalions that he enlisted around July 1880, when he was eighteen.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Close-ups of amendments made to the original draft of Connolly's address to the Irish workers of America (1897).

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Another day another lost Connolly letter found, this time in an archive in Berlin. It's not catalogued so the archive doesn't even know it has it. I found it just by basic gumshoe research, systemically working through the files.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Really disappointing to see AI slop being used in so many posters for Bloomsday events. At least one of these has got DCC's logo on it.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

1/ Photo of Patrick James McIntyre, one of two men (the other being Edward Stewart) who started the rumour in 1913 that Connolly joined and deserted the British army.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

During the Second World War Dublin Zoo had a Russian bear called Trotsky - (on the left - appropriately - in the picture).

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"When the revolution comes, who will do the dishes?" James Connolly: "We'll have a rota"

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Cabman's shelter, main setting for the Eumaeus chapter in Ulysses - across from Liberty Hall and around 30 metres from the Connolly memorial, making Beresford Place the natural starting point for the Connolly Bloomsday walk.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Just showed up in my inbox - proof copy of the second volume of Connolly's collected writings - the complete shorter works. This brings together all of his pamphlets - including ones he edited which have never been republished. Amazing work by @iskrabooks.bsky.social On target for autumn release.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It occurred to me this morning that the folds in an A4 zine match the dimensions of a PowerPoint slide, so i experimented with a recent presentation and I think i might start handing these out at talks as takeaway notes. (Pretty happy with the improv folding bloc I made as well.)

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Happy with this now I think. A6 foldout map for Connolly Bloomsday walk - www.eventbrite.ie/e/james-conn...

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Lower Liffey and Middle Abbey junction where Connolly and Joyce most clearly intersect. Lives of vast horizons cascading through Dublin streets.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Another pocket zine, mixing Lefebvre with Dublin 8.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A6 foldout of the Workers' Republic

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Have to get some writing done so of course I'm making memes. This is one I did up a few years back but it got lost when I wiped my Twitter history. Going to start using it again in workshops.

Samuel Beckett and Mrs. Doyle in an existentialist discussion

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Really happy with how this turned out. Mini-map and guide for the Connolly Bloomsday walk. Just need to update the stops on the map but apart from that it's all but done.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"Ryan and Connolly volunteered to distribute papers on Tuesday nights at the Kingsbridge [Heuston]." Fred Ryan was a founder member of the Irish National Theatre Society and co-editor of Dana, which published an early Joyce poem. He is mentioned in Ulysses: Stephen Dedalus owes him five shillings.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Two of the stops on the upcoming Connolly Bloomsday walk: former site of Mannings on Abbey Street, and Barney Kiernan’s on Little Britain Street.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Writing up a short piece on John Connolly, brother of James and just came across this photo of the journalist Ian Bell - grandnephew of James Connolly, grandson of John - and my oh my, the family resemblance is something else.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

At the launch of Bohs' Building Community Wealth strategy in the Mansion House.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Happy with this so far. A foldable-map zine for the Connolly Bloomsday walk.

Cover and back cover of foldable-map zine

Map of James connolly and Ulysses walking tour

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Did this last year and it seemed to go well. Might run it again around Bloomsday? Don't see why the straw-hat brigade should get Joyce all to themselves :-)

James Connolly and James Joyce in silhouette, over a background map of Dublin in 1904. "James Connolly and Ulysses - A Joycean Stroll Through the Workers Republic."

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

What I have here is the schema that I'm playing around with. I can get these four done in the next two years (the first volume is already finished, more or less) and possibly release them as a set or staggered - I don't know, have to wait and see on that.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I think you can a sense of the current lack of availability of Connolly's writings when just two years of his complete journalism comes to over 300 pages and 145,000 words (with notes).

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Came across this while looking for something else. Sketch of 44 Stafford St., birthplace of Wolfe Tone, now long demolished.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Me, an idiot: "The Mansion House is one of the finest examples of early 18th century architecture in Dublin. How could you possibly improve it?" Dublin City Council: "I dunno. Horse a neon shamrock in front of it?"

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Best part of a week working on one article by Connolly, chasing down references and compiling short biographies of the people mentioned in it. The article itself is 873 words long, while the footnotes currently stand at 2,217 - almost three times the length.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Interesting use of "shoneen" to describe the intermediary/middleman class of ranchers and fatteners in Ireland, from a UIL meeting in 1899.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Really taken with the sundial fountain on James St, which was a meeting place for radicals in the city for decades, including Connolly and Larkin. Playing around with ways to incorporate it into radical education today.

Photograph of the Obelisk on James st. Dublin with a quote from James Connolly: "To permanently remedy the evils of city life the citizens must own their city." A black and white image of Connolly overlooks the obelisk.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

David Byrne on the Jonathan Ross Show thinking how did i get here?

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Arrived today and, dear reader, it uses footnotes. 💘

Cover of David Harvey's "The Story of Capital."

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The Housing Minister & council officials are not just "off to the Riviera," they're off to the MIPIM - a global real estate event. Less than a week after the lifting of the rent caps, they are off to tell the vulture funds that it's time to "drill baby drill" in Ireland's rental market.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I review the 50th edition of Saothar in History Ireland, and so get to respond to Shay Cody's article that James Connolly served in India and Egypt and that I may be "wrong" in my analysis and research. This is me giving him the gentlest of taps; I really could have gone to town on it.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Poster for a socialist meeting in Dublin, 1887

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Sometimes you footnote just for yourself. Does the average reader really need to know the context for Connolly's comment on the weather?

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Now that vol. II is with @iskrabooks.bsky.social for publication I feel like I'm finally catching up with the schedule and getting on top of things. Really enjoying editing the next collection - vol. III (1898-1899) - which contains the first two years of his journalism in Ireland.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Ad for Pearse and Sons above an ad for Connolly's pamphlet, Erin's Hope. United Irishman, 31 May 1902.

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Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We're reached the "quoting Lenin in the Irish Farmers Monthly" stage of consciousness-raising✊

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