Lillie Connolly ne Reynolds, was born in County Wicklow, a Protestant. She met James Connolly while the latter was serving in the British Army in Ireland. ...
She met James Connolly while the latter was serving in the British Army in Ireland.
In the Spring of 1890, James and Lillie moved to Edinburgh and lived at 22 West Port, and joined his father and brother working as labourers and then as a manure carter with Edinburgh Corporation, on a strictly temporary and casual basis....
where he founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party in May 1896..