Forward to Mike Donnell&;s poem/play, Roger Casement 1916

None of the leaders of 1916 have touched the Irish as much as has Casement.  He dreamed of the destiny of Ireland.  And he was hung for his dreams.  When his body, or the remains and traces of his body, came home to a free Ireland, a sovereign Ireland, then the Irish for whom he...

The Oath of Treason

In 1914, with war raging in Europe, Sir Roger Casement, a retired Irish born diplomat of the British Consular Service, with a distinguished record of service in Africa and South America, traveled to Germany, on behalf of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, with an audacious plan to persuade captured British soldiers of the Irish Regiments, to...