Book ReviewSir Roger Casement’s Heart Of Darkness, The 1911 Documents, Angus Mitchell While the student of Roger Casement’s life must engage with the 'Black Diaries', it is important not to neglect the real Casement as distinct from the false one portrayed in those diaries and various biographies. Casement must be allowed speak for himself, which … Continue reading A Clear Picture Of Roger Casement
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The Framing Of Roger Casement: Typescripts Versus Handwritten Diaries
About a month after Roger Casement’s arrest in April 1916, extracts of diaries purporting to be composed by Roger Casement were circulated. Two key people were involved in this campaign: Reginald Hall, the head of Naval Intelligence; and Basil Thomson, the Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Head of the CID. There is some … Continue reading The Framing Of Roger Casement: Typescripts Versus Handwritten Diaries
The Casement Diaries: Fake Truth – The Case Of Mr. Germain
On 23rd July 1959 British Home Secretary R.A. Butler made an important announcement to the House of Commons concerning the controversy about the obscene diaries attributed to Roger Casement. Besides admitting their existence for the first time, Butler briefly described the diaries and commented on how and when they had come into police possession. He … Continue reading The Casement Diaries: Fake Truth – The Case Of Mr. Germain
A Side-Issue In The Casement Story: McCormick And Grayson
In last month’s Irish Political Review I focused on the career of J. Arthur Maundy Gregory, who became famous by selling more knighthoods and other titles of honour than anyone else in Great Britain. Previous to that, he was probably involved—under the direction of Basil Thomson, head of Scotland Yard—in forging the 'Black Diaries' attributed to Roger Casement. I set out below … Continue reading A Side-Issue In The Casement Story: McCormick And Grayson
Concerning the Black Diaries
The book, “Anatomy of Lie – Decoding Casement” by Paul R. Hyde published in 2019 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
Letters to the Editor re Casement
Dear Editor, I wrote in May’s Irish Political Review: "Ruling out official documentation as evidence means accepting that at least 30 named individuals were privy to the research and writing of extensive forgeries and the linked faking of memos,and that the deceit went unrecorded or unmentioned for decades by any of them. This is not … Continue reading Letters to the Editor re Casement
The Real Roger Casement!
Book Review: Casement by Angus Mitchell, Haus Publishing, 2026 The publication of this book is a timely antidote to the distorted image of Casement that has been presented in recent books, which portray him as a fragile person who was desperate to latch onto any cause to escape his mental frailties. An example of the … Continue reading The Real Roger Casement!
Basil Thomson And Maundy Gregory
In previous articles in this series I sketched the personality of Sir Basil Thomson, who was head of Scotland Yard in 1916 and the main interrogator of Roger Casement. He was a man of remarkably wide professional experience and much intellectual curiosity. He was also a gifted writer. Intellectually, Thomson was committed to defending the global power … Continue reading Basil Thomson And Maundy Gregory
The Geopolitics Of Casement
Review:The Crime Against Europe with The Crime Against Ireland, by Roger Casement, Athol Books, 2003 This book, when it came out in 2003, was the first time Roger Casement’s work had been published for almost 50 years. Brendan Clifford in his introduction refers to an academic book which states that: “The origins of the modern … Continue reading The Geopolitics Of Casement
History As Creative Story-telling
Book review: Rory Carroll, A Rebel And A Traitor [Roger Casement] (Dimensions, £17.50) History As Creative Story-telling Rory Carroll’s new book is neither a history nor a biography; it has elements of a political thriller or an adventure story but is not that either. This hybrid identity conceals it as a strategic narrative—a carefully … Continue reading History As Creative Story-telling
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