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Roderick James Connolly (11 February 1901 – 16 December 1980) was a socialist politician in Ireland. He was also known as "Roddy Connolly" and "Rory Connolly". Biography. The son of Irish socialist James Connolly and Lillie Connolly. A lieutenant in the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) boys' corps, he was involved in the 1916 Easter Rising.
Connolly, Roderic James (‘Roddy’) (1901–80), socialist, trade unionist, and politician, was born 11 February 1901 at 54 Pimlico, Dublin, only son and sixth among seven children of James Connolly (qv), native of Edinburgh, Scotland, the socialist republican revolutionary, and Lillie Connolly (née Reynolds), native of Carnew, Co. Wicklow.
Roddy Connolly was a leading figure in the early Irish communist movement. At the age of 15, he was involved in the Easter Rising, whose leaders included his father, James Connolly.
Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in Ireland. Roddy Connolly was the son of James Connolly and a significant political figure in his own right. In a career that lasted over sixty years, he played a centr...
James and Lillie Connolly’s grandson James Connolly (fourth from left), son of Roddy Connolly (1901-1980), with some of his children and other descendants at the special ‘James Connolly and the State Apartments’ tour given at Dublin Castle on 12 May 2018 (Photograph by Seán Connolly).
Roddy Connolly participated in the Easter rising of 1916 as a boy of fifteen years of age. He was one of the few Irish politicians who met Lenin, the Soviet leader. He was instrumental in founding Ireland’s first Communist Party.
Roddy Connolly was the youngest child and only son of James Connolly. In this interview he describes what his father was like both as a parent and an activist. Connolly was very...
