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| | Report of the Socialist Party of Ireland |
 | | Many members of the Socialist Party participated in the struggle, some were killed in action: James Connolly, a wounded prisoner of war, was tried by court-martial which assembled around his bed, and placed in a chair, his arms and legs fastened by bandages to it and carried thus to the place of execution and shot. |
 | | At the moment of the insurrection, the British Labour Party was in coalition with the bourgeois parties of England, Mr Arthur Henderson, Mr Wm Bruce, and Mr GH Roberts being members of the Ministry, the first mentioned having Cabinet rank. |
 | | On the side of education the party took the initiative in establishing the James Connolly Labour College, a federation of the Labour Movement for the purpose of Marxian education within the movement. |
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