Roger Casement (1864–1916)
Roger Casement was one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers in 1913. Following his mission to raise arms and troops in Germany, he was arrested by British forces in Co. Kerry in 1916 and brought to London where he was executed on 3 August 1916.
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Roger Casement (1864–1916)
Roger Casement was one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers in 1913. Following his mission to raise arms and troops in Germany, he was arrested by British forces in Co. Kerry in 1916 and brought to London where he was executed on 3 August 1916.
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Roger Casement was captured in Kerry before the Rising on Good Friday in 1916. He had just returned to Ireland in a German U-Boat and was imprisoned in Pentonville Gaol in London, where he was tried on charges of High Treason. He was hanged on the 3rd of August 1916 and was the only leader to be executed outside of Ireland.