Bell's prologue begins with an account of Trafalgar Square's "Bloody Sunday" of November 1887, a demonstration against British coercion in Ireland ending with violence on London streets, to introduce "the history of British radicalism identifying with the cause of Ireland." (x) The opening chapter discusses the Rising's gestation and the unsympathetic response of the British left, exemplified by the Socialist Labour Party's failure to provide an obituary for James Connolly, a former prominent member, following his execution. (216) Nevertheless, Bell's main argument is that whilst large sections of the British working class were disturbed by their government's treatment of Ireland, the labour movement, with a few exceptions, failed even to attempt to provide leadership that could give voice to this sentiment. The perspectives of leading Labour figures, trade unionists, socialists, feminists, Fabians, and communists clearly emerge from a large range of primary sources, notably contemporary published materials such as conference reports and newspapers and autobiographies. ...at various points Bell usefully contrasts their approach with that of Irish organisations in Britain, and with the views of interested individuals at home and abroad notably Lenin and H.H. Asquith (when in opposition).