am going to concentrate on other featres of the time that may have caused this. While Ireland was still struggling for its independence, there were two influential leaders whose political ideals would be considered left-wing, James Connolly and James Larkin, joint founders of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU). When the Daíl was founded, both men might have been expected to become the leaders of the political left-wing, yet this did not happen. James Connolly, who might have been seen as the intellectual side of the pairing, was an industrialist who believed in using the power of nationalism in order to implement his plans for socialism, even though this went against much of what socialism stood for. Another socialist who believed in this ides was Lenin. Connolly once stated "The real battle is the battle being fought out every day for the power to control industry and the gauge of the progress of that battle is not to be found in the
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