Basil Thomson the Writer

         Angela Clifford, writing in January’s Irish Political Review, focused attention on the remarkable man who was Roger Casement’s main interrogator.  Sir Basil Thomson is well worth looking at closely.  He can never be entirely ignored by anyone telling the Casement story, but he may be—and normally is—marginalised.  He always seems to get less notice than he deserves.    It has … Continue reading Basil Thomson the Writer

Casement:  Character Assassination—By An Expert!

Review Roger Casement by Brian Inglis, Penguin Books, 2002, first published 1973. It is widely believed that Brian Inglis’s biography of Roger Casement is the standard biography from which other biographies take their cue.   Although Inglis did not receive cooperation from the Casement family, the book could also be described as an “authorised” biography.  … Continue reading Casement:  Character Assassination—By An Expert!