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From the Putumayo to Connemara

Peter James Harris
 

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Notes

[1] Although Roger Casement has not generated quite so much attention of late as Michael Collins, it is certain that Neil Jordan’s forthcoming film, scripted by John Banville, will rekindle the controversy surrounding his life and death.

[2] Homer, The Odyssey, W.H.D. Rouse (trans.) (New York: New American Library, 1937), 49.

[3] Homer, The Odyssey,  81.

[4] Roger Sawyer, Casement: The Flawed Hero (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984), 1.

[5] Sawyer, Casement, xi.

[6] Sawyer, Casement, 21.

[7] Roger Casement, ‘White Diary,’ 22 October 1910, Roger Casement’s Diaries – 1910: The Black & the White, Roger Sawyer (ed.) (London: Pimlico, 1997),  204.

[8] Casement, ‘White Diary,’ 17 October 1910, 183.

[9] Angus Mitchell, ‘The Diaries Controversy,’ in Roger Casement, The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement, Angus Mitchell (ed.) (London: Anaconda, 1997), 35.

[10] Casement, ‘White Diary,’ 6 October 1910, 153.

[11] Homer, The Odyssey, 119-22.

[12] Casement, ‘White Diary,’ 18 November 1910, p. 238

[13] Casement, ‘Black Diary,’ 4 October 1910, Roger Casement’s Diaries – 1910: The Black & the White, Roger Sawyer (ed.) (London: Pimlico, 1997), 91.

[14] Casement, ‘White Diary,’ 6 October 1910, pp. 159-60.

[15] Casement, ‘White Diary,’ 9 October 1910, p. 169.

[16] Casement, ‘White Diary,’ 21 October 1910, p. 195.

[17] Casement, ‘White Diary,’ 25 October 1910, p. 213.

[18] Sawyer, Casement, 92.

[19] These comments were jotted down by Casement on a letter, dated 6 June 1913, which had been sent to him by Charles Roberts, the chairman of the Select Committee on the Putumayo. (National Library of Ireland, Casement (Misc.) Papers, NLI 13073).

[20] Roddy Doyle, The Commitments (1988), in: The Barrytown Trilogy, (London: Minerva, 1993), 13.

[21] At Casement’s trial, Colonel Nicolai Belaiew, of the Imperial Guard, identified the rifles as having been manufactured in Russia in 1905. See: Peter Singleton-Gates and Maurice Girodias, The Black Diaries (New York: Grove Press, 1959), 477.

[22] It is interesting to note that Roddy Doyle’s fictional account of the Easter Rising refers to the loss of the Aud, but makes no mention of Casement as being responsible for the shipment of arms. See Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry (London: Vintage, 2000), 110.

 

References

- Casement, Roger, Roger Casement’s Diaries – 1910: The Black & the White, Roger Sawyer (ed.) (London: Pimlico, 1997).

- Casement, Roger, The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement, Angus Mitchell (ed.) (London: Anaconda, 1997).

- Homer, The Odyssey, W.H.D. Rouse (trans.) (New York: New American Library, 1937).

- Sawyer, Roger, Casement: The Flawed Hero (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984).

- Singleton-Gates, Peter and Maurice Girodias, The Black Diaries (New York: Grove Press, 1959).


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Online published: 1 July 2006
Edited: 07 May 2009

Citation:
Harris, Peter J., 'From the Putumayo to Connemara: Roger Casement's Amazonian Voyage of Discovery
' in "Irish Migration Studies in Latin America" Vol. 4 N° 3 (July 2006). Available online (www.irlandeses.org), accessed .


 

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