Sir Roger Casement's Reburial

[bazzatheblue]

A nasty old day to be buried,i can feel the cold come off that film.

[thekiddunne]

great piece of footage to have!

[BestSoapCharacter]

Thank you for this footage. Never saw it before. RIP Roger Casement.

[bouse23]

roger casement like most people of his time was by his own admission an imperialist as a young man but later became a fierce critic of imperialism and exploitation he exposed the crimes that belgian authorities were committing in the congo and also abuses in south america

[mikitelera]

Matias, Vargas Llosa write about Roger, defended his actitude, defended his personality . The book of Vargas llosa is a good news to

ireland, to Africa and to the history.

Vargas llosa denunced in several times the conquested of the spanian in Americe, but he said that finally two culture go togheter for 500 years. ,

he is not an imperialist, absolutly no, he suports the democracy in every book that he writes and he attacks the dictatures.

[folladordeprostis]

@mikitelera ironicamente vargas llosa es 1 desconocido en el mundo anglosajon

[matiasraul01]

Hey, for you people who wants to know more about this irish figure, and some of the irish history related to him (with some fiction of novelistic) read the late book of the winner of the Nobel 2010 in literature, peruvian writter Mario Vargas Llosa, "El sueño del Celta" (something like "The dream of the celtic"). Great book, you can also learn about some of what happened in africa and here in my country, Perú, reading this book. I hope it is in english yet.

[MrMarcusirish]

@matiasraul01 Yo he sabido sobre este libro por uno ano hora, It seems ironic that someone like MVL writes a book about Casement, knowing something about MVL opinion on the Spanish Conquest of Peru with Pizarro and Atahualpa 'It was a good thing and made the Indians civilized' I'm very angry as an Irishman that MVL can have the 'conjones' to write something on Casement who defied imperialism amd colonialism at every turn

[nesy1993]

I google my last name Casement just to see what would come up i was very bored but after looking at a 100 windows a came across Sir Roger Casement now i am getting interseted in his history so thanks for putting the video up. btw i am scottish not ireish

[cunteojones]

1932 As was the custom at the time, Casement's body was buried in quicklime in the prison cemetery at the rear of Pentonville Prison, where he was hanged. Michael Keogh and Tom Casement (Roger Casement's brother) went to Pentonville Prison in 1932 and removed a bone fragment with a steel plate.

[cunteojones]

His brother Tom knew there would be a plate and thats the only reason the fragment wasn't dust, nothing else was left but quicklime. They placed the remains in a cigar box in his mothers grave in the old Kilgobbin Cemetery, Sandyford. The Irish Government knew of this in 1932 as they had refused to go to Pentonville at the time to claim Roger Casements remains. There the only tangible remains of Roger Casement still lie today.

[chewbacka3210]

@cunteojones I second that.

[cunteojones]

In 1965, Casement's body was politically repatriated to Ireland by the Irish Government and, after a state funeral, was buried with full military honours in the Republican plot in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin after lying in state at Arbour Hill for five days, during which time an estimated half a million people filed past his coffin.

[liamr821]

no comrades here to meet me alas they must be dead and as a small boat pulled ashore on the lonely banestrade

[zubnala]

its my opinion that casements diaries are nothing but english twisted tales, god bless ireland

[crossybhoy]

@zubnala who really gives a bollox if he was gay or not? He went to Germany - at that time "Irelands" enemy as it was Britain's - and not just percured 20,000 rifles but got a lift home in a submarine. The guy's a legend. RIP Sir Roger Casement. Tiocfaidh Ar La

[chewbacka3210]

@crossybhoy Germany was not Ireland's enemy in 1915 or any other time in History, but your right he was a Legend.

[24352349]

beggo321 the notebooks were written by him and it was proved by forensic science

[chewbacka3210]

@24352349 Yeh, but by English scienctists ??????????

[vivascargill]

Yeats was a great poet but his statements about casement are disgraceful!

[vivascargill]

Roger Casement fought for Africa and Ireland--he was a very great man and what matter the diaries? He was a brave and courageous man!

[retour78]

alas and well may Eire weep

[beggo321]

Does anyone know if he was ever convicted for being gay?

[godbrother10]

No but it certantly swayed the Treason verdict.

[beggo321]

Who knows those diarys could of been forged

[pbbMKD]

As the Irish patriot Roger Casement (executed by the British after the 1916 uprising in Ireland) put it:

I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented.

Casement was speaking primarily of the Macedonians who then inhabited the lands that fell within the borders of the ancient Macedonian homeland. R.I.P. Roger Casement

[SANDSER]

REST IN PEACE brave soldier.

ERIN GO BRAGH.

[adamturner123]

may he rst in peace as all the people killed i magh eniskillen and shankhill , also as the 2 soliders and the police man

[emm876]

@adamturner123 as well as the 13 innocent people {children}murdered on bloody sunday,the victims of the shankill butchers,and all the innocent people murdered by the brits and uvf death squads

[phoenix1916]

"says he i am no traitor for i have come to free my land"......

For taking German rifles to the lonely bannistrand!!

[Masacyre]

I am related to Sir Roger Casement..... unfortunitly I dont live in Ireland but I plan to move there someday

[homerbhoy1]

RIP sir roger.......

[oa1oa2]

roger casement was a hero,the brits tryed to blacken his name

[CHARLESHOBIN]

Sorry got my videos mixed up...Sorry for the "F" up.... Charles

[CHARLESHOBIN]

Great Work Tom

[TomBarry192I]

The time is now right for his burial at Murlough Bay.

[1916supermc]

R.I.P. FREEDOM FIGHTER ,,,tiocfaidh ar la