Roger Casement

Sir Roger Casement (1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916) was an Irish nationalist and British diplomat. He served as British consul in Boma, the capital of the Congo Free State and reported human rights abuses there. He helped a campaign against King Léopold II of Belgium's rule in the Congo Free State, which led him to relinquish his African kingdom to the Belgian Parliament in 1908.

He then became an Irish revolutionary. After participating in the 1916 Easter Rrising, he was executed for treason by hanging by the British.

His role in the rising was in the importation of guns from Germany. He was arrested in Tralee, County Kerry.

At his trial he was outed as gay, this was discovered through his diary.

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  Roger Casement (1864-1916) - civil servant, explorer, human rights campaigner, Irish nationalist. He was executed on 3 August 1916, following his conviction for high treason.*Date: Circa 1910 NLI Ref.: CAS1A

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  Roger Casement (right) and his friend Herbert Ward, whom he met in the Congo Free State

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  2014 Faroe Islands stamp depicting Casement and Daniel Jacob Danielsen, his Faroese boat captain and assistant

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  Roger Casement and Juan A. Tizón at La Chorrera in 1910

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  Casement attempted to smuggle weapons from Germany for the Easter Rising.

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  Poster advertising public meeting "Against the Lawless Policy of Carsonism"

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  Franz von Papen. Papen was key in organising the arms shipments.

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  Plaque commemorating Casement's stay in Bavaria during the summer of 1915