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 !
Ireland, Poland and all humanity need peace not war
The Polish and Irish people have suffered too much historically, due to wars and occupation. Poland’s central European location makes its borders difficult to defend. Ireland’s isolated Atlantic ‘island behind an island’ location left it vulnerable to abusive British imperialism. Poland and Ireland achieved independence after World War I. While Ireland avoided the devastation of … Continue reading Ireland, Poland and all humanity need peace not war
ORGANISED LABOUR
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% April 2026 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ NATIONAL TRAINING FUND—Near €1.4bn surplus in State training fund is ‘ridiculous’ and ‘outrageous’. Accumulated surplus in National Training Fund now stands at €1.37bn, Dail's Public Accounts Committee is told. A near €1.4 billion surplus in a key State training fund has been criticised as 'outrageous' at the Public Accounts Committee. … Continue reading ORGANISED LABOUR
Labour Comment
James Connolly INTERNATIONALISM From The Harp, 1908-1910: HARP STRINGS (January,1908) LET no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman. Let no foreigner revile the Irish; he may be vilifying his own stock. Talking of France. What do you think of the comments upon the recent proceedings of the International … Continue reading Labour Comment
Letter to IPR editor on Churchill Archive
from Jeff Dudgeon The Winston Churchill archives and its Casement papers The Editorial Team in the March 2026 issue of the Irish Political Review alerted readers for the first time to the existence of “a copy of the typescripts…in the Churchill Papers.” That is accurate in that Churchill College in Cambridge has a copy of the typescripts of … Continue reading Letter to IPR editor on Churchill Archive
Letters to the Editor
Israel: Support For The War On Iran? A reader has suggested that Israel has— "A general policy of hegemony, which some Jews supported and many opposed." Philip O'Connor responds: Are you sure you have not inverted the "some" and "many"? I don't know of a single official or semi-official Jewish organisation in the world that was not … Continue reading Letters to the Editor
An “À La Carte” EU?
The EU and the President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen are very keen on Ukraine becoming a member of the Union. According to a report in Politico—a news agency that claims to be a survey of opinion across EU leaders and top officials—she has come up with an innovative way of … Continue reading An “À La Carte” EU?
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