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  Roger Casement
Roger Casement was born to a Protestant father and Catholic mother in Sandy Cove near Dublin in 1864, his family later moved and settled in Belfast, both parents died when he was still young and he was raised by an Aunt.
Roger Casement, perhaps due to his profile and exceptional diplomatic abilities was one of the key players in this scenario.
Casement was taken to London were he was subsequently tried and convicted of treason, sabotage and espionage against the Crown on June 29th 1916 - he appealed but it was turned down and he was hung at Pentonville Prison on August 3rd 1916.
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  Irish Historical Mysteries: The Diaries of Roger Casement
Casement gained an international reputation for his humantarian efforts in the Congo, and in 1910 he was further directed by the British Foreign Office to investigate charges of ill-treatment of natives in the Putumayo region of Peru, again an area of rubber production.
Casement was knighted for his services in 1911 and retired from the consular service in 1912.
Casement himself returned from Germany by submarine, and having landed at Banna Strand, near Tralee, County Kerry, he was arrested by police and taken to London on 24 April.
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Casement joined the British consular service in where he gained an international reputation and knighted in 1911 for his report highlighting appalling horrors of European rule in the Congo Free State and for similar work amongst the Indians in Peru.
Casement was able to a "treaty" with Germany which stated their for an independent Ireland however he spent of his time in Germany in a attempt to recruit an "Irish Brigade" consisting Irish prisoners-of-war in the prison camp of Limburg an der Lahn who would be trained to fight England.
Casement didn't learn about the Easter Rising until after the plan were fully The IRB puposefully kept him in the and even tried to replace him.
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 casement
Casement was a British consul in Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique; 1895-98), Angola (1898-1900), Congo Free State (1901-04), and Brazil (1906-11).
At the Central Criminal Court (known as the Old Bailey) in London, on 29 June 1916, Roger Casement was convicted of treason and sentenced to death.
Casement was executed despite attempts by influential Englishmen to secure a reprieve in view of his past services to the British government.
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 Roger Casement
Roger David Casement was born on 1 September 1864, Sandycove, County Dublin.
Roger Casements grave in Glasnevin Cemetery (Stephen Stratford 1998).
Roger Casement's grave is one of a group located around the O'Connell Tower and crypt.
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 Jack White on Rodger Casement, 1936.
Roger Casement was already in the Congo before the receipt of the Belgian reply; he had been sent there by Lord Lansdowne to investigate conditions and report on them as soon as possible.
Casement, followed by his bull-dog, entered one of the flsmith’s sheds in which were working ten women, six men, and five lads and girls, and sat down, when five men came over to speak to him.
Casement wished to serve Ireland, not the Kaiser, but if I am to present my admiration of the man with sincerity, I must not withhold the criticism which I think is justified in the light of the past, the present and the future.
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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Last Defence
Roger Casement was to spend the next twenty years of his life in Africa, stationed in the Congo, the Niger Coast, Lourenco Marques, South Africa and St. Paul de Loanda (Angola).
The Report was published in early 1904; for it Roger Casement received the C.M.G. After Africa came, first, the beginnings of his immersion in Irish affairs, during a protracted period of leave (1904-06), and, then, his appointment to Brazil, where he served in Santos, in Pará and, as Consul General, in Rio de Janeiro (1906-10).
Roger Casement, appointed British consul in the capital of Boma, began to be concerned about the ill-treatment, mutilations, executions and forced labour of disenfranchised natives employed in the rubber industry.
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 glbtq >> social sciences >> Casement, Roger
The use of the fl diaries to expose Casement's homosexuality, and thereby discredit him and his ideas, is a telling example of the vulnerability of gay men in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Casement's father, also named Roger Casement, was a Protestant, and his mother, Anne Jephson Casement, was a Catholic, although from a predominantly Protestant family.
Casement, the last of their four surviving children, was born in Kingstown (now called Dún Laoghaire) in County Dublin on September 1, 1864.
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 A History of Ireland in Song
Roger Casement was born on 1st September 1865 in Co. Antrim.
Casement was taken prisoner, but there is evidence to suggest that at first the RIC did not know who exactly they had in custody.
Casement told him his true identity and asked him to carry a message for the local Volunteers not to rise as it would be foolhardy without German support and arms.
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 SEARC'S WEB GUIDE - Roger Casement (1864-1916)
Roger Casement was born in Sandycove, County Dublin and educated at Ballymena Academy, County Antrim.
Casement negotiated a German ship, The Aud, to sail for Ireland in April, 1916 with 'several machine-guns, 20,000 rifles and a million rounds of ammunition' for the Volunteers.
Casement was convicted of High-Treason and was hung and buried in Pentonville Prison on August 3rd, 1916.
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 Roger Casement
Sir Roger Casement (full name Roger David Casement) (1864 - 1916) was a British diplomat by profession and a poet, Irish revolutionary and nationalist by inclination.
He joined the British consular service in 1892 where he gained an international reputation and was knighted in 1911 for his report highlighting the appalling horrors of European rule in the Congo Free State, and for similar work amongst the Putayamo Indians[?] in Peru.
In 1916 Roger Casement was captured in Ireland, having been put ashore from a German submarine, the U-19.
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 Sir Roger Casement
Roger Casement in Death: Or, Haunting the Free State
Prelude to the Easter Rising: Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany (New Directions in Irish History)
Roger Casement : The Biography of a Patriot Who Lived for England, Died for Ireland
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 The Poets of 1916
It was Plunkett who, despite the fragility of his health, traveled in a very circuitous journey to Germany in April 1915 in order to meet Roger Casement.
Roger Casement rarely receives a mention when it comes to the writers and poets of 1916 and yet his reports from the Putumayo and from the Congo show a writer of great talent.
His descriptions of the horrendous brutality inflicted on innocent and perfectly peaceful native inhabitants was enough to force a change of policy with regard to the treatment of workers and slaves on the rubber plantations.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Roger Casement
Sir Roger David Casement (1864-1916), the British traitor and Irish nationalist hero, was hanged by the British in mid-1916 for his part in working with Germany and Irish nationalists in planning the Dublin Easter Rising of 1916.
Casement himself was rewarded with a knighthood in 1911, the same year he retired from the diplomatic service in ill-health and established himself in Dublin.
While in Germany Casement strove in particular to effectively borrow a number of German officers to assist with a planned Easter rising in Dublin; again, he was disappointed.
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 Roger Casement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Casement was born in Dublin to a Protestant father, Captain Roger Casement of (The King’s Own) Regiment of Light Dragoons himself the son of a bankrupt Belfast shipping merchant (Hugh Casement) who later moved to Australia.
Casement's mother Anne Jephson of Dublin (whose origins are obscure), had him rebaptised secretly as a Roman Catholic when aged three in Rhyl, and died in Worthing when her son was nine.
Casement Station in Tralee, is named in honour of Rodger Casement due to its proximity to Banna Strand.
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 Mannerings & Matley (2002) The "Black Diaries" Attributed to Sir Roger Casement
In a brilliant introduction to Casement’s campaigning work against the enslavement of the Putumayo Indians by the rubber traders, Mitchell declared that the ‘Black Diaries’ were “deeply homophobic documents”.
At the Casement Colloquium at Goldsmiths College McCormack and Giles did not dispute that the copies from the NLI were indeed the same documents as those examined in the forensic tests.
Casement’s tight pencil scrawl, with strings of words joined together is highly individual and almost impossible to forge.
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 Roger Casement Hero or Traitor   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sir Roger Casement was executed in Pentonville prison in 1916, the last person to suffer the consequences of the 1916 rebellion.
His part in the rising was a huge surprise to his former employers and the outrage expressed at his traitorous deeds culminated in both his hanging and the dirty tricks campaign involving his notorious fl diaries.
Describe Roger Casement’s treatment by the British after his arrest at Banna Strand Co.Kerry.
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 ROGER CASEMENT   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The trial and execution of Sir Roger Casement in 1916 marks one of the low points of English justice.
Early in the morning of 21 April 1916, Casement came ashore at the Bay of Tralee in County Kerry.
Casement was hanged at Pentonville prison on 3 August 1916.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for casement
window in architecture, the casement or sash, fitted with glass, which closes an opening in the wall of a structure without excluding light and air.
It may have a square, round, or pointed head; may be single, double, or grouped; in relation to the wall, it may be flush, recessed, or projected.
Dogged history of Casement diaries; Roger Casement: The Black Diaries by Jeffrey Dudgeon.
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 Irish Democrat : News and comment : News 2002 : Hunting for the real Roger Casement
Casement’s journey to Germany is portrayed as a gallant if futile gesture and his return to Ireland as his necessity to take his place alongside the other leaders of the Easter rising.
The description of Casement by Herr Zerrhaussen, his interpreter in Germany, is particularly moving, while the statement made two years ago by Professor Doerries, that constant surveillance by suspicious German authorities failed to uncover any sign of homosexual activity.
That said, the makers of The Hunt for Roger Casement, Crossing the Line Films, have produced a film that should be shown in every Irish club around the world for it reminds us of the life of one of the greatest humanitarians and fighters for human rights that the world has ever known.
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 Politics | Sex diaries of Roger Casement found to be genuine
The private diaries of Sir Roger Casement, in which the folk hero of Irish republicanism wrote in exuberant detail of sex with men, are genuine beyond doubt, the first forensic study of them for 86 years found yesterday.
The controversy has lasted in Ireland, Britain and the US almost since Casement was hanged for high treason in August 1916 after trying to land arms for the Irish Easter rising.
Prof McCormack said Casement's supporters were entitled to resent the 1916 government's "plain flguardism" in deploying private diaries to send a politically embarrassing figure to the scaffold.
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 Roger Casement letters on display: Clare Champion, 29th April 2005
All because a collection of letters written by Casement as he was involved in planning Ireland’s revolution has finally gone on display in Clare County Museum, over 35 years after they were donated to Clare County Council by noted Clare solicitor Ignatius Houlihan.
“Casement’s concern for the spiritual welfare of Irish prisoners of war in Germany is reflected very clearly in this part of the collection, as is his contempt for the British government and his desire to see it undermined.
What comes across particularly strongly, however, is Casement’s inextinguishable passion and drive for the cause of Irish independence, reflected also in his writings from the period.
www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/library/developments/casement_letters.htm   (683 words)

  
 Roger Casement - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Roger Casement - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Casement, Sir Roger David (1864-1916), Irish revolutionist, born Roger David Casement in Sandycove, near Dublin.
In 1916 Irish revolutionary Sir Roger Casement was tried for high treason by a British court for his role in planning the Easter Rebellion, an...
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Casement served as British consul in Portugese East Africa (Mozambique) from 1895 to 1898, in Angola from 1898 to 1900, in the Congo Free State from 1901 to 1904, and in Brazil from 1906 to 1911.
Casement sympathized with the predominately Catholic Irish nationalists, despite his own Protestant upbringing.
An unfavorable biography: Roger Casement: a New Judgement by Rene Marie MacColl, 1956.
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