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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Short story in 1894 journal may be lost James Connolly play

Academics believe story about Scottish dockworkers strike was written by Irish republican

An anonymous short story centred on a 19th-century Scottish dockworkers strike could solve the mystery of a lost play by the Irish republican James Connolly, academics believe.

No script has ever been found of the missing play, The Agitator’s Wife, which was first alluded to in a 1935 memoir by Connolly’s daughter Nora.

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