“Why a Club of six is both Europe’s best hope and its greatest risk” was the title of an article in Social Europe, the Social Democratic pro-EU Think Tank: its content should be required reading for all concerned with the Irish Presidency of the EU later this year. It outlines the central problem in the EU, which it calls “The deadlock in the … Continue reading Is The EU fit for purpose?
The Lost World Of The Putumayo
Review: The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement, edited by Angus Mitchell, Lilliput Press, Dublin, 1997. This book reproduces correspondence written by Roger Casement in 1910, as well as his Putumayo Diary covering the period 23rd September to 6th December 1910. The existence of the 'Putumayo Diary' represents a fatal weakness in the edifice that the … Continue reading The Lost World Of The Putumayo
Trump: Caught In A Trap!
“Caught in a trap, I can’t walk out, Because I love you too much, Bibi!” President Trump is caught in a trap—very much of his own making! In being the leader of the Western Hemisphere, Trump has also ensnared the West in the trap, laid by Netanyahu and Israel over decades. For at least 25 … Continue reading Trump: Caught In A Trap!
The Brian P. Murphy OSB Archive. (Series 9)
The Brian P. Murphy OSB Archive. (Series 9) The Evolution Of British Policy And The Emergence Of a Sinn Fein Publicity Department In The Years After The Easter Rising. Mss notes, Mss notes, Part 26. 'The Trial of de Valera' At a dramatic meeting of the Friends of Irish Freedom on 19th March 1920 at … Continue reading The Brian P. Murphy OSB Archive. (Series 9)
The War On Iran: A Historical Perspective!
Brendan Clifford Persia/Iran is undergoing a process of being saved from itself by an American/Jewish campaign of redemption. As a first step on the way to freedom it has to be "bombed to shit" as the Leader of the Free World has put it. The government of Israel represents Freedom in the Middle East, and … Continue reading The War On Iran: A Historical Perspective!
Another ‘Biography’ Of Casement !
Book Launch: Report Another 'Biography' Of Casement ! Books on Roger Casement are becoming something of a growth industry. The latest is by Rory Carroll, the Irish correspondent of the Guardian, titled A Rebel And A Traitor. The leaflet below was made available on 25th March at a pre-publication event for the book, The Hunt For Roger Casement. … Continue reading Another ‘Biography’ Of Casement !
Roger Casement
by W. B. Yeats I SAY that Roger Casement Did what he had to do. He died upon the gallows, But that is nothing new. Afraid they might be beaten Before the bench of Time, They turned a trick by forgery And blackened his good name. A perjurer stood ready To prove their forgery true; … Continue reading Roger Casement
Concerning the Black Diaries
The book, “Anatomy of Lie – Decoding Casement” by Paul R. Hyde published last year creates a new paradigm for assessing the infamous case of the alleged Black Diaries of Roger Casement; it establishes the case that there is no verifiable evidence that these diaries existed in 1916 before Casement’s execution. Hyde makes a convincing … Continue reading Concerning the Black Diaries
Basil Thomson And Distant Peoples And Their Languages
Last month I began a brief investigation of Basil Thomson, head of Scotland Yard and Roger Casement’s main interrogator in 1916, and a man who is closely connected with the Diaries. Thomson was anything but a narrow-focussed policeman. He was an agent of the British Empire with years of service in exotic South Seas … Continue reading Basil Thomson And Distant Peoples And Their Languages
The B&ICO !
It seems that an account of the B&ICO should be given, and that I will have to give it. I was not in any sense a founder of it, but I was around at the time and I knew its founders, Pat Murphy and Liam Daltun; Gerry Golden might be named as a third (all … Continue reading The B&ICO !
Irish Political Review 