The Easter Rising, My Grandfather and the Untold Story of Sir Roger Casement

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/15/the-easter-rising-my-grandfather-and-the-untold-story-of-sir-roger-casement/
Date Written:  2016-04-15
Publisher:  Counterpunch
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX19311

The 100th anniversary of the Easter uprising of 1916 saw the beginnings of a deeper appreciation of the achievements of Sir Roger Casement who was hanged as a traitor in Pentonville prison on 3 August 1916. Over the following century he has never lacked for notoriety, famous as an Irish patriotic martyr, but discussion of his life has frequently focused on his sexuality and revolved around the "Black Diaries" that were covertly used by the British government to blacken Casement's name and sabotage the campaign against his execution.