Wet, stormy February brings record rainfall to many places
Two weather stations recorded wettest February since records began in 1850
Black diary is a red herring
Roger Casement, nationalist and human rights activist, was hanged in 1916
A rebel who found his cause
BIOGRAPHY: Roger Casement: Imperialist, Rebel, Revolutionary, By Seamus O'Siochain, Lilliput Press, 656pp
An Irishman's Diary
NINETY-FIVE YEARS ago, on Good Friday, April 21st, 1916, Roger Casement disembarked at Banna Strand in Kerry
May 24th, 1913: Claims of typhus epidemic in Galway rejected
FROM THE ARCHIVES: The prospects for the tourist season in Connemara in 1913 did not look good, thanks in part to well-meaning…
Saga of the diaries has clouded legacy of Casement
Author Roger Sawyer looks back at the life of Roger Casement, whose campaign to secure Irish freedom ended a brilliant career…
Casement was allowed a discretion given to few others
The past seems unalterable and unbending, though that depends on the discovery of new information and the perspective of the …
Revenge of the spooks?
Biography/Declan Kiberd: 'It is easy to pelt a man who can't reply or who is gone," wrote Roger Casement during his last days…
The making of a revolutionary martyr
History: In September, 1911, Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey of New York introduced himself to Roger Casement in a hotel bar in Bridgetown…
Sex, lies and the Black Diaries
In this extract from his new book, Colm Tóibín argues that Roger Casement deserves our admiration for the passion and erotic …
Hanging offence
Albert Ellis, the hangman, said that Roger Casement "appeared to me the bravest man it fell to my unhappy lot to execute
`I loved Joe Plunkett and he loved me, He gave his life to set Ireland free"
Grace Gifford Plunkett suffered two bereavements in 1916
The Casement conundrum
This month sees the publication of The Amazon Journal Of Roger Casement, the transcription of manuscript material held almost…
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