Roger Casement: The Movie / Assassin's Creed / Bits, Bytes and Books

Irish Times Off Topic

One of the best known campaigners for civil rights of his day, a knighted poet, a gay man, a nationalist, a rebel: the life of Roger Casement's provides more than enough fodder for a big screen treatment. Exploring what such a movie would be like is the idea behind a new exhibition at IMMA, The Humaniser, by artist Simon Fujiwara. Screenwriter Michael Lesslie, who worked on the project, talks with Laurence Mackin about Roger Casement and the primacy of themes over facts in dramatisations of real lives. Lesslie also talks about his work on the new Assassin's Creed movie and an intriguing new writing project, blending fact and history in New Orleans. In part two: how can libraries survive and thrive in an age where texts of all kinds are multiplying at a dizzying rate and can be spread and shared in the digital space? The changing concept of the modern library was the focus of ‘Library Futures’ Symposium at Trinity College Dublin this week. Hugh Linehan talks with speakers Richard Ovenden of Oxford University's prestigious Bodley Library and and Helen Shelton of Trinity College.