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Shades of Emmet. Yet Casement was also writing to Irish friends about "Anglo-Britannic swine," about "the Bitch and Harlot of the North Sea." What had happened to Casement? Author MacColl suggests that some snub in the Foreign Office probably set Casement on his devious course, for he was an "oick," i.e., a social outsider. Given the man's pride, ambition, quixotic brilliance and genuine Irish patriotism, this theory is as likely as any other. Yet most of the details of Casement's attempt to win Irish independence were absurd. When he went to Germany...
...late. Foiled and captured, he had only one role left: to die. He did that in style. During his trial. Casement's main preoccupation was the speech he would make from the dock. It came out very well, almost as well as that of Robert Emmet to whom the Irish in America had often compared...
Charlie Hamm, Henry Cortesi, Gerry Emmet and John Davis all won their matches in three games. Cortesi, the third man, looked particularly impressive, winning...
...called in his onetime chief speechwriter, Emmet Hughes of FORTUNE. Working together, they ripped apart Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' preliminary draft and put together a speech with punch. Ike himself was still tooling away at it a few hours before the TV cameras were...
Grenville T. Emmet...