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...
Read moreThe verdict was ‘High Treason’ and that was the title given to the painting depicting one of the...
Read moreIn the first week of August 1917, on the first anniversary of the execution of Roger Casement, commemorative events were held...
Read moreLondon, 29 July 1916 - A gathering swell of public protest at the impending execution of Sir Roger Casement has so far...
Read moreLondon, 29 June 1916 - Sir Roger Casement was today found guilty of high treason and has been sentenced to death. The...
Read moreEngland, 6 December 1914 - There are claims that Irish soldiers held in German prisoner of war camps have rejected pleas from...
Read moreby John Gibney Introduction The 'Ireland report' was composed at some point in April-May 1915; it was a hypothetical plan for...
Read moreBerlin, 20 February 1915 - Sir Roger Casement has made public a letter alleging that the British government has been engaged in...
Read moreBerlin, 3 February 1915 - Reports from Berlin claim that Sir Roger Casement is practically a prisoner in Germany. His intention to...
Read moreBerlin, 30 November 1914 - Sir Roger Casement has travelled to Berlin for talks with the German authorities. Sir Roger was...
Read moreBy Ed Mulhall The withdrawal by An Post of the commemorative stamp for the Citizen Army, because of the misidentification...
Read moreA meeting at Cork City Hall last night, which had been organised to establish a city corps of the new...
Read moreA fund established by Roger Casement to raise money for the provision of school meals to children attending primary school...
Read moreBy Ed Mulhall The July 1913 edition of The Irish Review, a monthly magazine of Irish Literature, Art and Science, leads...
Read moreDublin, 13 June 1913 - Roger Casement has spoken of his sorrow at the scenes of poverty and distress he witnessed on...
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