Broadsides – A collection of bits and pieces
"Unprovided with original learning, uninformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a blog”
In 1914, with war raging in Europe, Sir Roger Casement, a retired Irish born diplomat of the British Consular Service, with a distinguished record of service in Africa and South America, traveled to Germany, on behalf of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, with an audacious plan to persuade captured British soldiers of the Irish Regiments, to... Continue Reading →
One of the great purposes of this book, all eight hundred and ninety six pages of its slightly smaller than breeze block size, is to fall, with all its ponderous weight, upon the poorly sourced, idiosyncratic 64 page pamphlet of John de Courcy Ireland's The Sea and the Easter Rising. It does so with a... Continue Reading →
Broadsides - A collection of bits and pieces 