In September Irish Political Review there were five Roger Casement articles over ten pages, with fifteen, mostly vituperative, mentions of me. One item concerned my response to a public challenge by the Group of Four led by Paul Hyde and Jack Lane to eliminate “serious doubts about the authenticity” of the Casement diaries. It was … Continue reading Roger Casement: Jeff Dudgeon Responds
Poetry
Paying Homage to Cambridge University !
The language of history A Chara, – There’s only one way to read the statement by our Taoiseach that “Embracing Anglo-Irish history will never oblige us to think better of Cromwell” at the creation of the chair of Irish history in Cambridge University (“History ‘too important to leave to authoritarians’”, Home News, February 21st). It … Continue reading Paying Homage to Cambridge University !
Casement And Emotion
(Some Thoughts On Broken Archangel by Roland Philipps) Reading the latest biography of Roger Casement by Roland Philipps, a few things struck me that may be of some interest. I don’t think Philipps’s work is particularly original. It seems to be largely an elaborate development of ideas thrown out sketchily by Jeffrey Dudgeon in his large edition … Continue reading Casement And Emotion
