which it was within her power to liberate with the stroke of a pen." Of James Connolly, Lynd was to write: "among the sixteen men who were executed after the failure of the Irish Insurrection of 1916 there was no nobler or more heroic figure than James Connolly". He described Connolly as "a working-class leader and a Nationalist in almost equal Proportions. He was at once as patriotic as Garibaldi and as revolutionary as Lenin". At the request of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union, Lynd wrote an introduction to a new edition of James Connolly’s Labour in Irish history, first published in 1910. He became a fluent Irish speaker, and Gaelic League member. As a Sinn Féin activist, he used the name Robiard Ó Flionn/Roibeard Ua Flionn. In Belfast he was a member both of the republican Dungannon Clubs and of the Belfast Socialist Society. Personal life and death He married the writer Sylvia Dryhurst on 21 April 1909. They met at Gaelic League meetings in London. Their daughters Máire and Sigle became close friends of Isaiah Berlin. Máire married communist lawyer Jack Gaster and had three children. Sigle's son, born in 1941, is artist Tim Wheeler. In March 1924, Robert and Sylvia moved to what was to be their long-term married home, the elegant Regency house of 5 Keats Grove in the leafy suburb of Hampstead, north-west London. The house had been lived in by various members of Sylvia's (Dryhurst) family. James Joyce and his wife Nora Barnacle held their wedding lunch at the Lynds’ house after getting married at Hampstead Town Hall on 4 July 1931. Lynd died in Hampstead in 1949. He is buried in Belfast City Cemetery. Seán MacBride, Minister for External Affairs, attended the funeral as the representative of the government of the Republic of Ireland. Works The Mantle Of The Emperor (1906) with Ladbroke Black On Not Being A Philosopher Irish and English (1908) Home Life in Ireland (1909) Rambles in Ireland (1912) The Book of This and That (1915) If the Germans Conquered England (1917) Old and New Masters (1919) Ireland a Nation (1919) The Art of Letters (1920) The Passion of Labour (1920) New Statesman articles The Pleasures of Ignorance (1921) Solomon in All His Glory (1922) The Sporting Life and Other Trifles (1922) Books and Authors (1922) The Blue Lion (1923) Selected Essays (1923) The Peal of Bells (1924)