Roger Casement
Who is Roger Casement
Roger David Casement (Irish: Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru.In Africa as a young man, Casement first worked for commercial interests before joining the British Colonial Service. In 1891 he was appointed as a British ...
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- Congolescinire: hi all,
cci president attended performance by congolese & brazilian artists at the roger casement statue on saturday 18th march 2023.
the performance was recorded as the video will have an impact for roger casement summer school.
- Kerrytodayrk: coming up after 9 –
- fr peter mcverry who’s been speaking in kenmare gives his reaction to tds' vote to end the eviction ban.
- previously unseen letters give fresh insight into the character of roger casement. 1/
- Radiokerrynews: hopes that irish state will buy unseen roger casement letters at upcoming auction
- Greekirishsoc: “twelve: the final hours of roger casement” is a new play (in greek) currently running at the dromos theatre theater (ag. meletiou 25 & kykladon in kypseli), every wednesday night at 9pm until 26 april.
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- Ngireland: some of the portraits by purser that we hold in our collection include roger casement, kathleen behan, jack b. yeats and dubhglas de hÍde.
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