The Road to the Rising was an RTE History Festival held on O’Connell Street in Dublin on Easter Monday the 6th April. Over 50,000 people attended, dipping into and out of exhibits, street theatre, lectures, music, re-enactments and the screening of historical films. The Big Personalities series of lectures were limited to 20 minutes for each of the speakers. this is the talk on Roger Casement.
It is 1915. Sir Roger is in Germany, as a guest of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Imperial German Government. He is engaged in a secret and dangerous mission on behalf of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. 1915 will not be his finest year but it is a year of great personal danger and risk.
He is not happy in Germany. He is isolated from the planning of the rebellion. He has no direct contact with Ireland and can only write and cable Dublin via America…
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Broadsides - A collection of bits and pieces 
I have a soft spot for Ireland and all things Irish. In fact I lived in a “camp” in Ballymena in 1945 for just over a year, I was then 4 years old and my family, together with a few other Gibraltarians, were transported to Ireland. It’s a long story that merits a few more lines……………..
You nust write that up before you pop your cloggs and it is lost
I will sooner rather than later, particularly since I may not count on my cloggs for too long in view of current circumstances