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Sat 08/03/19 04:22 AM

On this day in 1916 – Roger Casement, Irish patriot, is hanged by the English in Pentonville Prison, London.

Roger David Casement, known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat and later became a humanitarian activist, poet and Easter Rising leader

Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann.(They died for Irish Independence)

“Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth. A thing no more to be doled out to us by another people than the right to life itself; than the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers or to love our kind.”
Sir Roger Casement

The Lonely Banna Strand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvVSK61UuSQ
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Larsi666 😽

Sat 08/03/19 07:39 AM

I think, he is the only leader of the Rising, who was executed outside Ireland. But not 100% sure.

May his legacy last forever. TAL
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Sir Dino One Love ☝️💚

Sat 08/03/19 09:58 AM

I'd say you were right there, not as lauded as Connolly and Pearse, but such a man all the same..winking smokin
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Sir Dino One Love ☝️💚

Sun 08/04/19 07:38 AM

Roger Casement's friend Arthur Conan Doyle(author of Sherlock Holmes) tried to rally support for his defence and put together a petition for his release, signed by figures such as W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and John Galsworthy.