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...ROGER CASEMENT, IRISH PATRIOT, ENGLISH TRAITOR (328 pp.)-Rene MacColl -Norton...
...farce with a tragic ending is the characteristic Irish art form, the life and death of Sir Roger Casement make him a great Irishman. Many of his countrymen believe him to be so and periodically ask the British government to yield custody of his remains, which lie in quicklime within the walls of Pentonville Prison. Casement was hanged for treason in 1916, three months after the Dublin uprising of Easter Week. In the midst of World War I, he had landed from a German submarine on the coast of Kerry, ostensibly to foment rebellion. A boatload of rifles...
Princess, princess, silver maiden, Throw your casement open; see- On the terrace I am singing; Come and take the road with...
What is better in the Advocate does not balance what is worse. A dream-like story with a nightmare ending, Nowhere Special, takes first place by default in the short story class. In The Great Rake, Allen Grossman manipulates six words, cities, turn threat, casement, grass, world, into a poetic whole which is the best piece of creative work in the issue. As for the other poetry, two pieces by Walter Kaiser, from the Garrison Prize Poems, reveal a fine sense of imagery and a fluid style. Winifred Hare has written a sonnet...
...hogs, feeding, watering and bedding the horses, feeding and watering the 20-odd beef cattle, feeding, watering, bedding and milking the three cows. The farm day is not done until Gus ties back the vane of the windmill, pulls off his overshoes and sets them neatly in a little casement near the back steps, washes (after pumping water in a basin at the kitchen sink), and sits down at the kitchen table to one of his wife's suppers-a county byword for good cooking...