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TE Lawrence saw Roger Casement as a kindred spirit. Shortly before his death from a motorcycle crash in 1935, the English adventurer best remembered as Lawrence of Arabia was hoping to pen a short book about the equally enigmatic Easter Rising martyr.
Hanged by the British in 1916 for working with Germany and Irish nationalists in planning the Easter Rising of 1916, Sir Roger Casement is remembered as the “father of twentieth-century human rights investigations.” Standing in the gallows of Britain’s Pentonville Prison, Casement was asked by the governor if he had any final words. He did,
Roger Casement was executed in London on August 3, 1916. The only one to be executed outside of Ireland, this Irish Easter Rising rebel had received a knighthood from the Queen of England just five years earlier.
<strong>Letter: </strong>On the anniversary of his execution, <strong>Helen Rivron</strong> recalls the homophobic campaign that many believe prevented his reprieve
1910: The Black and the White - Roger Casement's Diaries by Sawyer, Roger at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 071267375X - ISBN 13: 9780712673754 - Pimlico - 1997 - Softcover