IMG 5168-001-James Connolly (statue base)

Statue of James Connolly, one of the primary participants in the Easter Rising of 1916, outside the Falls Community Council. The base reads:

Trade union organiser, Socialist, Internationalist
and one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916.
Connolly along with his family lived among the working people
of Belfast and helped organise Catholics, Protestants and
dissenters to fight together for the common class interests.
Born in Edingurgh 5 June 1868, he was executed by firing squad
in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, 12 May 1916,
for his part in the Easter Rising.