Volume 21, Number 11 · June 27, 1974
No Acquittal
By Brian Inglis
In response to The Myth of Roger Casement
(March 21, 1974)
To the Editors:
In his interesting survey of Michael Collins and modern Ireland [NYR, March 21], Noel Annan was kind enough to make a passing reference or two to my biography of Roger Casement. The myth, he believes, has cast its spell over me, as I "seem to suggest that Casement could somehow have been acquitted." Shaw's myth must have cast its spell over Annan: the point I was making was that there was never the remotest chance of an acquittal.
Brian Inglis
London