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This Song Tells The Story Of Sir Roger David Casement 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916 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 Peru. He Then Made Efforts During World War I To Gain German Military Aid For The 1916 Easter Rising That Sought To Gain Irish Independence Was Captured And Executed For Treason By The British Because Of It.
In Ireland On Leave From Africa In 1904–1905 In 1904 Casement Joined The Gaelic League Established In 1893 To Preserve And Revive The Speaking And Literature Of The Irish Language . He Met The Leaders Of The Powerful Irish Parliamentary Party IPP To Lobby For His Work In The Congo. He Did Not Support Those Like The IPP Proposing Home Rule As He Felt Sure That The House Of Lords Would Always Veto Their Efforts As Its Peers Had Done Many Times Before. He Was More Impressed By Arthur Griffith's New Sinn Féin Party Which Called For Irish Independence Through A Non-Violent Series Of Strikes And Boycotts Modeled On The Policy Of Ferenc Deák In Hungary And He Joined The Party In 1905.
Casement Retired From The British Consular Service In The Summer Of 1913. In November That Year He Was One Of Those Helping To Form The Irish Volunteers. He And Eoin MacNeill Later The Organisation's Chief Of Staff Co-Wrote The Volunteers' Manifesto.
In August 1914 At The Outbreak Of World War I Casement And John Devoy Arranged A Meeting In New York With The Western Hemisphere's Top-Ranking German Diplomat Count Bernstorff To Propose A Mutually Beneficial Plan If Germany Would Sell Guns To The Irish Revolutionary And Provide Military Leaders The Irish Would Revolt Against England Diverting Troops And Attention From The War On Germany. Bernstorff Appeared Sympathetic. In October 1914 Casement Sailed For Germany Via Norway — Traveling In Disguise And Seeing Himself As An Ambassador Of The Irish Nation. While The Journey Was His Idea Clan Na Gael Financed The Expedition. During Their Stop In Christiania His Companion Adler Christensen Was Taken To The British Legation. According To Him A Reward Was Offered If Casement Was "knocked On The Head". British Diplomat Mansfeldt Findlay In Contrast Advised London That Christensen Had Approached Them And "implied That Their Relations Were Of An Unnatural Nature And That Consequently He Had Great Power Over This Man". This Alleged Episode Provided London With The First Intimation That Casement Was Homosexual.
Findlay's Handwritten Letter Of 1914 Is Kept In University College Dublin And Is Viewable Online. This Letter—written On Official Notepaper By Minister Findlay At The British Legation In Oslo—offers To Christensen The Sum Of £5 000 Plus Immunity And Free Passage To The US In Return For Information Leading To The Capture Of Roger Casement. In 2014 Values The Money Offered Is Approximately £2 616 000 In Income Terms. The British Version Claims That Christensen Solicited This Money. However Christensen Travelled Into Germany With Casement Very Shortly After Did Not Provide The Information Sought And Did Not Receive The Bribe.
In November 1914 Casement Negotiated A Declaration By Germany Which Stated "The Imperial Government Formally Declares That Under No Circumstances Would Germany Invade Ireland With A View To Its Conquest Or The Overthrow Of Any Native Institutions In That Country. Should The Fortune Of This Great War That Was Not Of Germany's Seeking Ever Bring In Its Course German Troops To The Shores Of Ireland They Would Land There Not As An Army Of Invaders To Pillage And Destroy But As The Forces Of A Government That Is Inspired By Goodwill Towards A Country And People For Whom Germany Desires Only National Prosperity And National Freedom".
In The Early Hours Of 21 April 1916 Three Days Before The Rising Began Casement Was Taken By A German Submarine And Was Put Ashore At Banna Strand In Tralee Bay County Kerry. Suffering From A Recurrence Of The Malaria That Had Plagued Him Since His Days In The Congo And Too Weak To Travel He Was Discovered At McKenna's Fort An Ancient Ring Fort Now Called Casement's Fort In Rahoneen "Ráth Eoghainín" Ardfert And Arrested On Charges Of Treason Sabotage And Espionage Against The Crown. "He Was Taken To Brixton Prison To Be Placed Under Special Observation For Fear Of An Attempt Of Suicide. There Was No Staff At The Tower Of London To Guard Suicidal Cases." 32 33 He Sent Word To Dublin About The Inadequate German Assistance. The Kerry Brigade Of The Irish Volunteers Might Have Tried To Rescue Him Over The Next Three Days But Had Been Ordered By Its Leadership In Dublin To "do Nothing" 34 — Not A Shot Was To Be Fired In Ireland Before The Easter Rising Was In Train.
At Casement's Highly Publicized Trial For Treason The Prosecution Had Trouble Arguing Its Case. Casement's Crimes Had Been Carried Out In Germany And The Treason Act 1351 Seemed To Apply Only To Activities Carried Out On English Or Arguably British Soil. A Close Reading Of The Act Allowed For A Broader Interpretation The Court Decided That A Comma Should Be Read In The Unpunctuated Original Norman-French Text Crucially Altering The Sense So That "in The Realm Or Elsewhere" Referred To Where Acts Were Done And Not Just To Where The "King's Enemies" May Be. 35 36 Afterwards Casement Himself Wrote That He Was To Be "hanged On A Comma" Leading To The Well Used Epigram. 37 Before And During The Trial And Appeal The British Government Secretly Circulated Alleged Excerpts Of Casement's Journals In A Campaign To Portray Casement As A Sodomite And Sexual Degenerate Including Numerous Explicit Accounts Of Sexual Activity. It Was Trying To Raise Opinions Against Him And Influence Those Notables Who Might Otherwise Have Tried To Intervene. Given Societal Views And The Illegality Of Homosexuality At The Time Support For Casement Declined Among Some Readers. The Journals Became Known As The Black Diaries.
Casement Unsuccessfully Appealed Against The Conviction And Death Sentence. Among Those Who Pleaded For Clemency For Casement Were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Who Was Acquainted With Casement Through The Work Of The Congo Reform Association The Anglo-Irish Poet W. B. Yeats And The Playwright George Bernard Shaw. Joseph Conrad Could Not Forgive Casement For His Attitude Towards Britain Nor Could Casement's Longtime Friend The Sculptor Herbert Ward Whose Son Charles Had Been Killed On The Western Front That January And Who Would Change The Name Of Casement's Godson Who Had Been Named After Him. Members Of The Casement Family In Antrim Contributed Discreetly To The Defence Fund Although They Had Sons In The British Army And Navy. Citation Needed . A US Senate Appeal Against The Death Sentence Was Rejected By The British Cabinet On The Insistence Of Prosecutor FE Smith An Opponent Of Irish Independence. Citation Needed On The Day Of His Execution Casement Was Again Received Into The Catholic Church At His Request. He Was Attended By Two Irish Catholic Priests Dean Timothy Ring And Father James Carey From The East London Parish Of SS Mary And Michael. The Latter Also Known As James McCarroll Clarification Needed Said Of Casement That He Was "a Saint… We Should Be Praying To Him Casement Instead Of For Him".
Casement Was Hanged By John Ellis And His Assistants At Pentonville Prison In London On 3 August 1916 At The Age Of 51.