Is it possible to identify a writer from the words of a text? Or more to the point, in the case of forgery, is it possible to prove that a person could not have written a text? The premiss of forensic linguistics is that an individual expresses himself in a unique way. Similar, to the … Continue reading Casement: The Scientific Proof of Forgery?
Roger Casement
Letter To The President: Choose Your Casement!
Introduction In his 2016 lecture on Casement, former Attorney General Michael McDowell cordially invited listeners “to imagine and even to judge his real character as we choose …”: in short, he invited us to ignore verified facts about the historical person and to thereby deceive ourselves by freely choosing whatever imaginary Casement took our fancy. Essentially the choice was … Continue reading Letter To The President: Choose Your Casement!
Roger Casement: . . . Witnesses – No Thanks!
In a debate in the Irish Political Review earlier this year about the typescripts—but no diary—sent by the Police to the DPP, Jeff Dudgeon stated that this “does not preclude the typed versions existing before the diary manuscripts” (Irish Political Review, April 2026). Together with other letters in the Irish Political Review, serious doubts were thereby cast upon the existence … Continue reading Roger Casement: . . . Witnesses – No Thanks!
“ Hanged By A Comma ! ”
Many books, plays and articles have been written over the last one hundred years concerning the life and death of Roger Casement, the great Irish patriot—who has been described as the “father of 20th century human rights investigations“—was knighted by the British authorities in 1911 for his investigations into human rights abuses in the Congo and … Continue reading “ Hanged By A Comma ! ”
A Clear Picture Of Roger Casement
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
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
