Abstract
The article analyses the influence of James Connolly – Irish socialist and the leader
of the Irish Citizen Army – on the creation of strategy of the Easter Rising of 1916. The goal of
the article is to compare the thesis put forward by Connolly in his essays discussing the issues
related to street fighting by the example of various armed conflicts with the plan of the Easter
Rising and its execution in April of 1916. The sources for this analysis were his political writings
and speeches, as well as testimonies of his associates from the collection of the Irish Bureau
of Military History.