Written mostly before 1914, these essays argue that Britain’s control of the seas and its balance-of-power diplomacy forced a war on Germany, and that Irish freedom was bound up with Europe’s. Casement, the former consul celebrated for exposing atrocities in the Congo, was hanged for treason in 1916; his arguments carry the period’s assumptions about race and empire.
A revealing primary source for the history of Irish nationalism and wartime propaganda. Download the free EPUB.