Roger Casement: 16Lives

Angus Mitchell

Jan. 2014 · The O'Brien Press

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A fascinating examination of the extraordinary life of Roger Casement, executed as part of the 1916 rising, fighting the empire that had previously knighted him.
Roger Casement was a British consul for two decades. However, his investigation into atrocities in the Congo led Casement to anti-Imperialist views. Ultimately, this led him to side with the Irish Republican movement, leading up to the 1916 rising.
Arrested by the British for gun trafficking, he was incarcerated in the Tower of London and then placed in the dock at the Royal Courts of Justice in an internationally-publicised state trial for high treason. He was hanged in Pentonville prison on the 3 August—two years to the day after Britain's declaration of war in 1914.

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Angus Mitchell edited T he Amazon Journal of Roger Casement (Lilliput Press, 1997). In 2003, there appeared a companion volume Sir Roger Casement's Heart of Darkness: The 1911 Documents. In 2010, Mitchell initiated and helped curate a series of exhibitions on Roger Casement that helped to alert a wider international audience to the importance of Casement as both an intellectual and an activist. Most recently he annotated two extensive extracts from Casement's German diaries for Field Day Review 08/2012.