Volume 21, Number 4 · March 21, 1974
The Myth of Roger Casement
By Noel Annan
Roger Casement
by Brian Inglis
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 488 pp., $8.95
The troubles in Ulster during the past five years have produced a crop of books about Ireland and her struggle to obtain independence from England. Many of these books have owed much to those historians, some of the most talented of them working in Dublin, who have been demythologizing the past. The great revolt against British rule which ended in Irish independence was both heroic and successful. But it was also tragic in its incompetence and self-destructiveness, and resembled much more the operations of a small and indomitable guerrilla group than the spontaneous rising of a nation in arms throwing off the yoke of a tyrant.
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