Casement papers go on exhibition
Monday, 25 April 2005
A collection of personal papers relating to the Irish nationalist Roger Casement, which had been lost in storage in Co Clare for 34 years, are to go on exhibition at The Clare Museum.
The collection includes over 50 documents relating to Casement's time in Germany during the years 1914 to 1916.
They consist of mainly correspondence, as well as receipts, essays, leaflets, and newspaper cuttings.
The letters address a range of subjects including the enlisting of Irish soldiers fighting in World War 1 in Germany, and encouraging them to organise an Irish battalion to fight for Irish Liberation.
They also refer to the work of Fr Crotty who was working among Irishmen in German prison camps.
The documents had originally been donated to Clare County Council by the Houlihan family, solicitors based in Ennis, in 1969. But they remained in storage until their discovery in 2003 by archivist Roisin Berry.
The exhibition runs until 3 June, after which it travels to the county libraries throughout Co Clare.
