James connolly 

James Connolly (Edinburgh, 1868 - Dublin, 1916) was an Irish labor leader and socialist. Born in Edinburgh, the son of Irish immigrant parents and was executed on May 12, 1916 at Kilmainham Prison.
Definitely an important figure in Irish republicanism, and by extension a figure of importance to socialist thought europeo.Dejó school to work at eleven years old, and later became one of the political leaders of his time left .
You may enter the British Army at age fourteen, and was posted to Dublin, where he allegedly met the woman who would become his wife.

In 1892 was an important figure in the Scottish Socialist Federation, becoming general secretary of the same three years later. In 1896 he left the army and formed the Irish Socialist Republican Party. While he was on British soil, was one of the founders of the Socialist Labor Party, which split from the Social Democratic Federation in 1903. It was the right hand of James Larkin in the Transport Workers Union. In 1913 in response to the lockout of that year, he formed the Irish Citizen Army, a group of armed and trained workers struggling to defend workers and organized strikes. Consisted of only 250 people. Its ultimate goal was the establishment of an independent and socialist Irish nation free from British occupation.