The Irish Right Haunted by Connolly and Larkin

How Irish conservatism echoes the socialist tradition

Callum McMichael examines how modern Irish conservatism has quietly inherited and inverted the moral and economic ideals of James Connolly and Jim Larkin, transforming their revolutionary socialism into a nationalist creed of labour, virtue, and belonging.

Every nation that outlives its revolutions must learn to perform a delicate necromancy: it must hon…