Tag: Irish Martyr

  • Roger Casement : a gay Irish martyr or victim of a British forgery?

    Roger Casement : a gay Irish martyr or victim of a British forgery?

      Sir Roger Casement, CMG,  was a diplomat and Irish nationalist between 1911 and 1916, but was executed for treason during World War I. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the “father of twentieth-century human rights investigations”, he was honored in…