'Casement's War' and 'Casement Wars'

‘Casement’s War’ and ‘Casement Wars’ – responses to Angus Mitchell on the 1st World War and the Black Diaries

Casement's War' and 'Casement Wars

Jeff {Dudgeon MBE] has written a response to Angus Mitchell which is comprehensive and extremely articulate…

This edition of the Field Day Review (published by the University of Notre Dame, Indiana) is beautifully presented and exceptionally well produced. On the cover and flyleaf are evocative photographs of Banna Strand where Casement landed in April 1916 and Murlough Bay in the 1890s and 1953 during Eamon

de Valera‘s visit. Murlough Bay was to be Casement‘s final resting place, a mile from his adopted home near Ballycastle but, short of partition ending, cannot be. Despite his efforts, the division of Ireland is nearly a century old, Northern Ireland‘s frontier being one of the longest standing in Europe. The memorial cross to Casement (and others) at Murlough‘s ―green hill was torn down in 1957 during the IRA border campaign which was quite eventful in the area. Little of it remains. The four items under review are two transcriptions from Casement‘s German diaries, introduced and annotated by Angus Mitchell, and two substantive articles by him on the German episode and the diary authenticity debate and its history. Together they run to 125 pages…

I have provided the link to the uploaded copy of the response in full at academia.edu/