In this video, historian Emmet O'Connor explains how the Irish Communist Party under Roddy Connolly attempted to enlist the help of the Communist International (the Comintern) in the fight against the Treaty and the Provisional Government - without success. You can read more about the class politics and and the Civil War here and about how the Civil War devastated the Labour Party here.
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