Irish Workers' Party (1926)

Worker's Party of Ireland
Worker's Party of Ireland
Leader	Roddy Connolly
Founded	1926
Dissolved	1927
Ideology	Communism ; Marxism
Political position	Far-left
	Politics of Ireland; Political parties; Elections; Politics of Northern Ireland; Political parties; Elections;

The Worker's Party of Ireland (WPI) was a communist party in Ireland. It was founded in 1926 by former members of the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) and other communists. Among its members were Roddy Connolly (son of James Connolly), who served as party leader,^[1] Nora Connolly (daughter of James Connolly), Tom Lyng, the trade unionist P. T. Daly, Walter Carpenter Jnr, and Jack White. Many of the members had been active in Jim Larkin's Irish Worker League, and the party attempted to affiliate with the Communist International in place of the IWL.

^ 'Roddy Connolly and the Workers' Party of Ireland in 1926' by Charlie Maguire, Saothar, Vol. 30, (2005), pp. 33-45. Published by: Irish Labour History Society.