Sir Roger Casement Features

Roger Casement anniversary marked with a new poem

Ardfert, 5 August 1918 - The second anniversary of the execution of Roger Casement has proved a quiet affair. In Kerry, police...

John Devoy claims Roger Casement to blame for Rising’s failure

New York, 23 March 1918 - New York-based John Devoy, editor of the recently suppressed Gaelic American has claimed credit for...

Roger Casement: 'High Treason' & the Politics of Hanging

The verdict was ‘High Treason’ and that was the title given to the painting depicting one of the...

Roger Casement executed in London

London, 3 August 1916 - Sir Roger Casement was executed this morning in Pentonville Prison in London. At 9am, the hangman placed...

The Life & Legacy of Roger Casement

In the first week of August 1917, on the first anniversary of the execution of Roger Casement, commemorative events were held...

Roger Casement letter

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Will Roger Casement be saved?

London, 29 July 1916 - A gathering swell of public protest at the impending execution of Sir Roger Casement has so far...

Roger Casement sentenced to death

London, 29 June 1916 - Sir Roger Casement was today found guilty of high treason and has been sentenced to death. The...

Irish soldiers refuse to support Roger Casement in Germany

England, 6 December 1914 - There are claims that Irish soldiers held in German prisoner of war camps have rejected pleas from...

The Plunkett-Casement 'Ireland report': what was it and why does it matter?

by John Gibney Introduction The 'Ireland report' was composed at some point in April-May 1915; it was a hypothetical plan for...

Plot to kill Roger Casement

Berlin, 20 February 1915 - Sir Roger Casement has made public a letter alleging that the British government has been engaged in...

Sir Roger Casement detained in Berlin

Berlin, 3 February 1915 - Reports from Berlin claim that Sir Roger Casement is practically a prisoner in Germany. His intention to...

Roger Casement in Berlin for talks

Berlin, 30 November 1914 - Sir Roger Casement has travelled to Berlin for talks with the German authorities. Sir Roger was...

Punching the Wind: Captain Jack White, the misfit of the Irish Revolution

By Ed Mulhall The withdrawal by An Post of the commemorative stamp for the Citizen Army, because of the misidentification...

Chaotic scenes at Cork Volunteers launch

A meeting at Cork City Hall last night, which had been organised to establish a city corps of the new...

Roger Casement fund for ‘starving’ schoolchildren in Connemara

Dublin, 14 November 1913 - A fund established by Roger Casement to raise money for the provision of school meals to children...

From Celtic Twilight to Revolutionary Dawn

By Ed Mulhall The July 1913 edition of The Irish Review, a monthly magazine of Irish Literature, Art and Science, leads...

Roger Casement says poverty in Connemara is ‘worst in civilised world’

Dublin, 13 June 1913 - Roger Casement has spoken of his sorrow at the scenes of poverty and distress he witnessed on...

Sir Roger Casement Features

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