Dear Irish Political Review Editor, I wish to deal with just a couple of points of accuracy in the Casement articles in October’s Irish Political Review where I get a dozen mentions - partly because I had a letter published. In defence of President Connolly from Paul Hyde’s many, often intemperate, attacks, I will only … Continue reading Roger Casement : Letters to the Editor
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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!
