Sir Roger Casement's Reburial

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. In 1965, Casement's body was repatriated 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 when over half a million people are estimated to have filed past his coffin. The President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera, who in his mid-eighties was the last surviving leader of the Easter Rising, defied the advice of his doctors and attended the ceremony, along with an estimated 30,000 Irish citizens. Casement's last wish, to be buried at Murlough Bay on the North Antrim coast has yet to be fulfilled as Harold Wilson's government only released the remains on condition that they were not brought into Northern Ireland.

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[beggo321]

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

[godbrother10]

No but it certantly swayed the Treason verdict.

[SANDSER]

REST IN PEACE brave soldier.

ERIN GO BRAGH.

[Masacyre]

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

[bazzatheblue]

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

[chewbacka3210]

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

[chewbacka3210]

@cunteojones I second that.

[folladordeprostis]

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

[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.

[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