The Siege of Connoly House

Donal Fallon
Great Strand Street

In March 1933 Connolly house, the home of the communist party of Ireland, was attacked for 3 days by an anti-communist mob. Storymap favourite and Come Here to me! blogger Donal Fallon tales us more about this fascinating and often forgotten about piece of Irish history.

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Donal has written a fantastic article about this incident on his blog, Comheretome - http://comeheretome.wordpress.com/2010/04/…. The period is particularly fascinating with a number of workers buildings coming under attack at the same time, including the Irish Workers Union on Marlborough St.