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Roger David Casement (Irish: Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir roger casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist. 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 honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru.In Africa as a young man, Casement first worked for commercial interests before joining the British Colonial Service.
Rory Carroll and his new book on Roger Casement
The Guardian’s Ireland correspondent and acclaimed author of ‘killing thatcher’, Rory Carroll who brings us his new book, ‘a rebel and a traitor, a fugitive, the manhunt and the birth of the IRA’, which tells the true story of Britain’s manhunt for Roger casement.
History’s Strangest Questions: Was a Lord of the Realm Hanged for a Comma?
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In 1911, the British Crown knighted Roger Casement for exposing colonial atrocities in the Congo and the Amazon. Five years later, the same government hanged him for treason. Ever since, people have said he was "hanged on a comma", that a single mark of punctuation in a 565-year-ol…
Roger Casement: An Exploration Of His Deep Love Of Nature
Roger Casement (1864–1916) is best remembered as one of Ireland's most significant historical figures, but before his execution for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising, he earned an international reputation as a humanitarian and diplomat. Serving as a British consul in Africa and South America, Case…
What were Roger Casement’s zoological exploits?
There are many reasons why Roger Casement is a significant figure in Irish history, but one lesser talked about aspect of his life are his zoological exploits. While travelling in Africa and South America, he sent preserved and live specimens back to Ireland…
Aidan O’Hanlon, Curator of Entomology a…
A Global Storm in a Capitalist Teacup? Jeremy Adelman on Why There’s No Exit to the Market
“There’s no exit in capitalism.” — Jeremy Adelman
Is that ongoing quarrel of modern politics, the battle over capitalism, just a storm in a teacup? Economic historian Jeremy Adelman thinks it might be. In The Capitalist Era, Adelman argues that all camps — left and right, Keynesian and Hayekian, …
A Rebel, a Traitor, and the Birth of the IRA | Rory Carroll
Before Bletchley Park, there was Reginald "Blinker" Hall, the Admiralty’s mercurial intelligence chief whose codebreakers read Germany’s wireless traffic during World War I, giving Britain a front-row seat to the plot behind the 1916 Easter Rising. His target was Sir Roger Casement: a diplomat knig…
A Rebel and a Traitor with author Rory Carroll: Episode 317
This week on History Happy Hour: Roger Casement was a British diplomat knighted by the crown – who turned into a rebel. His advocacy for Irish independence led him renounce his titles and make a deal with the Germans in the days leading up to the 1916 Easter Uprising. And that led him to become a t…
540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3)
Exposing the dark pit of human suffering, cruelty and corruption that had long been secretly festering in King Leopold’s Congo, would reveal one of the greatest abuses of human rights in all history, and instigate a human rights campaign that would change the world. Having established it as what wa…
540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3)
Exposing the dark pit of human suffering, cruelty and corruption that had long been secretly festering in King Leopold’s Congo, would reveal one of the greatest abuses of human rights in all history, and instigate a human rights campaign that would change the world. Having established it as what wa…
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