"Nothing[1] that has taken place should be lost to history.”—Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History”[2]

Roger Casement was a pioneer investigator of the abuse of human rights and today…

In 1959, Grove Press published The Black Diaries: An Account of Roger Casement’s Life and Times with a Collection of his Diaries and Public Writings. Edited by Peter Singleton-Gates and Maurice Girodias, The Black Diaries, in essence, is a biographical exegesis of Roger Casement.…

John Gibney was Visiting Research Fellow in Marsh’s Library, Dublin, in April 2013. He would like to thank Jason McElligott,  Julia Cummins and Maria O’Shea for their assistance. Click here to learn more about the Benjamin Iveagh…

Roger Casement’s life has all the marks of a great biopic: as a member of the British Foreign Service, he was knighted for his reports of human rights violations in the Congo and Peru, but then became critical of empire, aligning himself with the Irish nationalist cause before being hung for high…

Part One. Scene 1.

Darkness. Drumming. Figures gather in the murk. A shaft of light reveals Casement, standing apart from the others.

CASEMENT.  The System. That’s what he called it. The penal laws, the brutal clearances, the savage reprisals—all part…

It is unlikely that historians will be shocked by the forecast that “many 1916s” will be commemorated during the centenary year of 2016. This forecast does not refer exclusively to the obviously politically sensitive issue (sensitive for Northern Ireland’s stability and for stable north-south relations)…

This is the text of a lecture delivered by Éamon Ó Cuív, T.D. at Tionóil Mhic Easmainn, Tralee, Co. Kerry on September 4, 2015 regarding Casement’s importance and relevancy for Ireland in 2016. Born 1950, Ó Cuív has represented Fianna Fáil in the Galway West constituency since 1992. He has served…

John Gibney: First things first: what got you interested in the subject of Casement?

Angus Mitchell: Well, John, I was living in Brazil, and I attended the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, where I got interested in the fate of the Amazon rainforest,…

Angus Mitchell. Roger Casement: 16 Lives. Dublin: The O’Brien Press Dublin, 2013. 414pp.

On March 1, 1965, the bones of Roger Casement, buried in quicklime in the grounds of Pentonville prison after he was hanged for treason in August 1916, were returned to Ireland…

The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives. The National Library of Ireland. www.nli.ie/1916/exhibition/en/, 2016.

R. F. Foster. Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923. New York: Norton, 2014, xxiii + 464 pp.

John Waddell. Archaeology and Celtic Myth: An Exploration. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014, v + 203 pp.

Patricia Palmer. The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue: Literature, Translation and Violence in Early Modern Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 185 pp.

Seamus Heaney: Five Fables. Touchpress Limited, 2014, iPad app.

Folklore and Modern Irish Writing. Edited by Anne Markey and Anne O’Connor. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2013, xi + 250 pp.

Periodicals and Newspapers in Twentieth Century Ireland: Writing Against the Grain. Edited by Felix Larkin and Mark O’Brien. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014, 240 pp.

Gallipoli. Produced by Century Ireland. gallipoli.rte.ie.

Joyce/Shakespeare. Edited by Laura Pelaschiar. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015, xii + 210 pp.

Claude Rawson. Swift’s Angers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, xiv + 305 pp.

Deirdre Brennan. Staying Thin for Daddy. Dublin: Arlen House, 2014, 191 pp.