Were the views of James Connolly (and other early Irish/Scottish socialists for independence) patriotic and did he refer to internationalism?

by rafamct

I know Connolly wrote about nationalism but was it stemmed solely from the pursuit of democracy and anti-imperialism or was he just very patriotic / anti-British?

Can it be determined from his and other writings that the Irish independence movement would have been satisfied if an international socialist movement had come about, perhaps including Britain and Ireland under one banner e.g. in the event that a British socialist state had been established that wanted to retain its bonds with Ireland?

petros08

Connolly shifted from international socialism to republican socialism because he believed British capitalism was too strong to allow a socialist revolution unless the Empire was broken up. He was not a conventional Irish nationalist in that independence was just a precondition for true revolution not an end in itself.

Sources:

Austen Morgan, James Connolly, a political life