Connolly

Birnam Arts, Dunkeld, August 30

The life and death of one of Ireland’s most remarkable figures is explored at Birnam Arts next week.

Written, directed and performed by multiaward-winning team of playwright Martin McCardie and actor Brian McCardie, Connolly marks the centenary of James Connolly’s death and explores the life of the Scottish born/Irish republican and socialist leader whose belief in an Ireland free of British rule and his subsequent role in the Easter Uprising ultimately cost him his life, at the hands of a British firing squad.

Connolly was much more than an Irish freedom fighter: he was a poet, author socialist, trade union leader , orator, and military strategist.

Connolly’s own words, the recollections of fellow Irish volunteers and the testimony of his daughter, Nora Connolly-O’Brien, bring a personal and human perspective to a man whose legacy has lived on beyond the momentous events of 1916.

James Connolly.