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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 and military authorities made efforts to avoid the scenes of last year by stationing troops at Casement’s Fort in Ardfert to deter crowds from assembling there. In various...

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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 being the key individual behind the ‘German Sinn Féiner’ efforts to launch a revolt in Ireland in 1916. The claim comes in a letter, a copy of...

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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 most famous trials in British and Irish legal history. In Sir John Lavery’s painting we look directly towards the accused, Sir Roger Casement. His Counsel, Serjeant Sullivan pleads...

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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 him in position on a scaffold in the jail and, after the Governor of the Prison and other officials had taken their place in front, released the lever which opened...

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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 in Co. Kerry, where he had been arrested coming ashore at Banna Stand on the Good Friday prior to the rebellion of Easter week, 1916. Here, historian Prof. Mary E. Daly,...

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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 brought no reprieve from the British government. In June Casement was found guilty of high treason and was sentenced to death by three judges (led by the Lord Chief Justice)...

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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 Lord Chief Justice – assisted by two other judges – passed the sentence at the King’s Bench. The charge of high treason was defined under a 1351 statute as ...

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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 Sir Roger Casement to join the Irish brigade for Germany. According to a letter which is supposed to have been received in England from Germany, all the Irish prisoners of...

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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 an Irish rebellion that was to take place during the First World War, geared towards a German audience. It provided details of what a potential German expeditionary force should expect...

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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 a criminal conspiracy to have him captured and murdered. WATCH: Who was Sir Roger Casement? Casement is currently in Germany and has released to the newspapers a letter he has...

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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 travel to the United States has been thwarted by the fact that he is confident that should he leave Germany, it is highly likely he will be arrested by British...

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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 in America when war broke out raising funds for the Irish Volunteers and it is claimed that while there, he struck a deal with the Kaiser who pledged to...

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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 of the Army leader Captain Jack White, is perhaps the most fitting memorial for a man who in his own term was a 'misfit' in the story of the Irish...

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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 attending primary school has raised more than £630. In a letter to the editor of The Irish Independent this week, Casement recalled that he had launched the fund last May...

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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 a recent visit to Connemara. Mr Casement was knighted for reports into human rights abuses in South America and has previously written a report documenting evidence of cruelty and mutilation...

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