The Amazon Journal of Roger CasementBritish Consul Roger Casement was knighted in 1911 for his investigations into the genocide of trival peoples in the Congo Free State and Amazon rainforest. Five years later he was hanged for hils role in Irelands Easter Rising. The publication of The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement explodes the myth of the controversial and sexual explicit Black Diaries which played a leading role in his downfall, raising disturbing questions about his staged trial,

the origins of Irish modernism

prima ballerina Ninette de Valois was born Edris Stannus in County Wicklow in 1898 and died in London in 2001

chronicling the collapse of Northern Irish society

often shocking

appearing again and again in his key films such as The Long Way Home (1940)

sister canals

as poet – as Myles

In addition to his academic and administrative concerns at Trinity College

Dublin Castle was the headquarters of British rule in Ireland

These timeless

‘You’re touching me differently

did not fit easily into any of the worlds she inhabited