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- Roger Casement
- The Great Irish Famine: Global Contexts
How It Is Recording Atrocity in The Black Diaries: Uncanny Echoes of Casement in Beckett’s Prose
Author: Scott Eric Hamilton (University College Dublin)
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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.…
A Note on the Casement Papers in the Benjamin Iveagh Library, Farmleigh House, Dublin
Author: John Gibney
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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…
Casement (An Original Screenplay)
Author: John Banville, with an introduction by Bridget English
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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…
The Dreaming of Roger Casement: A Play
Author: Patrick Mason
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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…
Casement: The What and Why of Commemoration in 2016
Author: Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (NUI Galway)
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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)…
How Can the People of 2016 Best Commemorate Roger Casement’s Ideals and Work?
Author: Éamon Ó Cuív, T.D.
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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…
Angus Mitchell, In Conversation with John Gibney
Author: Angus Mitchell, with John Gibney
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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,…
A Review of Angus Mitchell's Roger Casement: 16 Lives
Author: Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (NUI Galway)
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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 Digital Rising
Author: Ian M. Burns (Northern Illinois University)
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The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives. The National Library of Ireland. www.nli.ie/1916/exhibition/en/, 2016.
A Terrible Beauty
Author: James Moran (University of Nottingham)
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R. F. Foster. Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923. New York: Norton, 2014, xxiii + 464 pp.
A Sacred Narrative
Author: Mairéad Carew (Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland)
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John Waddell. Archaeology and Celtic Myth: An Exploration. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014, v + 203 pp.
Heads, Swords, Tongues, and Words
Author: Marie-Louise Coolahan (National University of Ireland, Galway)
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Patricia Palmer. The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue: Literature, Translation and Violence in Early Modern Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 185 pp.
Wily Familiarity
Author: Anne Karhio (University of Bergen / National University of Ireland, Galway)
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Seamus Heaney: Five Fables. Touchpress Limited, 2014, iPad app.
Oral Tradition and Modern Literature
Author: Guy Beiner (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
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Folklore and Modern Irish Writing. Edited by Anne Markey and Anne O’Connor. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2013, xi + 250 pp.
Irish Periodicals: The Cultural Republic
Author: Martin Conboy (University of Sheffield)
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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.
Remembering Gallipoli
Author: Jane G. V. McGaughey (Concordia University)
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Gallipoli. Produced by Century Ireland. gallipoli.rte.ie.
The "Prince of Dinmurk"
Author: Scott W. Klein (Wake Forest University)
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Joyce/Shakespeare. Edited by Laura Pelaschiar. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015, xii + 210 pp.
Savage Indignation Civilized
Author: Helen Deutsch (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Claude Rawson. Swift’s Angers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, xiv + 305 pp.
Tainted Love
Author: Sylvie Mikowski (Université de Reims)
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Deirdre Brennan. Staying Thin for Daddy. Dublin: Arlen House, 2014, 191 pp.