Roger Casement was an Irish nationalist born in 1864 near Dublin. He had a Protestant upbringing but was secretly baptized Catholic at age three. He worked for the British Foreign Office investigating human rights abuses in Africa and South America. Later in life, he joined the Gaelic League and Sinn Féin to advocate for Irish independence. In 1916, Casement traveled to Germany seeking support for the Easter Rising but was arrested after landing in Ireland. He was convicted of treason and hanged in London at age 51.

1. Roger Casement
By:Yegor And Erik

2. Young Life
Casement was born near Dublin, living his very
early childhood at Doyle's Cottage, Lawson
Terrace, Sandycove. His Protestant father
Captain Roger Casement of Regiment of
Dragoons, was the son of a bankrupt Belfast
shipping merchant Hugh Casement, who later
moved to Australia. Captain Casement had
served in the 1842 Afghan campaign and went to
fight as a volunteer in the Hungarian Revolution
of 1848 but arrived after the Surrender at Világos

3. Young Life
Casement's mother, Anne Jephson of Dublin ,
had him rebaptised secretly as a Catholic when
he reached the age of three, in Rhyl. According
to an 1892 letter, Casement believed that she
was descended from the Jephson family of
Mallow, County Cork. However, the Jephson
family's historian provides no evidence of this.
She died in Worthing when her son was nine. By
the time Casement was 13 years old his father
was also dead, having ended his days in
Ballymena dependent on the charity of relatives.

4. More on Young Life
After his father's death he was looked after by
Protestant paternal relatives in Ulster, the
Youngs of Galgorm Castle in Ballymena and the
Casements of Magherintemple, and was
educated at the Diocesan School, Ballymena,
later the Ballymena Academy. He left school at
the age of 16 and took up a clerical job with
Elder Dempster, a Liverpool shipping company
headed by Alfred Lewis Jones, later an enemy
on the Congo issue.

5. Fact File
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Name:Roger Casement
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D.O.B:1 Sep 1864
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A.O.D:51(3 Aug 1916)
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Groups:Irish Volunteers,British Foreign
Office,IRB(Partly)
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P.O.B:SandyCove Dublin
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Monuments:Banna Strand

6. Life as an Adult
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In Ireland on leave from Africa in 1904-05, in
1904 Casement joined the Gaelic League
established in 1893 to preserve the Irish
language. He also met the leaders of the Home
Rule IPP to lobby for his work in the Congo, but
did not support them as he felt that the House of
Lords would always veto their efforts. He was
more impressed by Arthur Griffith's new Sinn
Féin party which called for Irish independence by
using a non-violent series of strikes and
boycotts, modelled on the policy of Ferenc Deák
in Hungary, and he joined it in 1905.

7. Life as an Adult
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Hobson, who was a member of the Volunteers
and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB),
Casement established connections with exiled
Irish nationalists, particularly in Clan na Gael.
Elements of the Clan did not trust him
completely, as he was not a member of the IRB
and held views considered by many to be too
moderate, although others such as John Quinn
regarded him as extreme. John Devoy, who was
initially hostile to Casement for his part in
conceding control of the Irish Volunteers to
Redmond.

8. Life as an Adult
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While the more extreme Clan leader Joseph
McGarrity became and remained devoted to
Casement. The Howth gun-running in late July
1914 which he had helped to organise and
finance further enhanced Casement's reputation.
John
Quinn
John
Devoy
Eoin
MacNeill

9. How Roger Died
In the early hours of 21 April 1916, three days
before the rising began, Casement was put
ashore at Banna Strand in Tralee Bay, County
Kerry. Too weak to travel, he was discovered at
McKenna's Fort (an ancient ring fort now called
Casement's Fort) in Rathoneen, Ardfert, and
subsequently arrested on charges of treason,
sabotage and espionage against the Crown. He
was taken straight to the Tower of London where
he was imprisoned,[28] but not before he was
able to send word to Dublin about the inadequate
German assistance.

10. How Roger Died
The Kerry Brigade of the Irish Volunteers might
have tried to rescue him over the next three
days.Casement was received into the Catholic
Church while awaiting execution and was
attended by a Catholic priest, Father James
McCarroll, who said of Casement that he was "a
saint ... we should be praying to him [Casement]
instead of for him". Casement was hanged by
John Ellis and his assistants at Pentonville
Prison in London on 3 August 1916, at the age of
51

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