A knight of the realm who turned traitor, and was hanged
Just before falling through the gallows to his death in 1916, Roger Casement delivered his final words: “I die for my country.” In the history of rebellion and martyrdom, it wasn’t an untypical last line; but, for Casement, it was a confident assertion of something that had evaded him throughout his life. The country with which he identified was Ireland – then reeling in the aftermath of the Easter Rising – and the country that compelled him to his death was Britain. And yet, Casement’s story wa
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