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Agitator's Wife

Long-Lost James Connolly Play May Be Found

By Maggie Holland, Editorial Assistant
March / April 2019

March 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

James Connolly.

In Nora Connolly’s 1935 memoir of her father, James Connolly, she mentions a play of his entitled The Agitator’s Wife, which scholars have never been able to find. A short story of the same name was recently discovered in an obscure journal in Warwick University’s library, leading University of Glasgow academics to believe it could be the long-lost work. The short story, which … [Read more...] about Long-Lost James Connolly Play May Be Found

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