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CongolesCinIre: Hi All, CCI President attended performance by Congolese & Brazilian Artists at the Roger Casement Statue on Saturday 18th March 2023. The performance was recorded as the video will have an impact for Roger Casement Summer School.

kerrytodayrk: Coming up after 9 – - Fr Peter McVerry who’s been speaking in Kenmare gives his reaction to TDs' vote to end the eviction ban. - Previously unseen letters give fresh insight into the character of Roger Casement. 1/

radiokerrynews: Hopes that Irish state will buy unseen Roger Casement letters at upcoming auction

GreekIrishSoc: “Twelve: The Final Hours of Roger Casement” is a new play (in Greek) currently running at the Dromos theatre Theater (Ag. Meletiou 25 & Kykladon in Kypseli), every Wednesday night at 9pm until 26 April. More info:

NGIreland: Some of the portraits by Purser that we hold in our collection include Roger Casement, Kathleen Behan, Jack B. Yeats and Dubhglas de hÍde.

svejky: Sláinte to Roger Casement and James Connolly and happy St Patrick’s Day

evaobeirnee: roger casement’s only flaw is that he was a virgo

JoTweetsalot: Roger Casement. It's Roger Casement

eirigi1916: With the establishment of the Conradh she began touring for the organisation, delivering lectures, setting up new branches and raising funds. Her focus in Ulster was on recruiting fellow Protestants, and she worked with the likes of Roger Casement in this regard. -12

ProfDarrylJones: Visiting the great Roger Casement (aka, for us Doyleans, Lord John Roxton), Sandycove.

Noam_Praszky: ok struggle over it's Sir Roger Casement sliding in at no.2 for me

JeffDudgeon: Big sales over Christmas, as interest in Roger Casement accelerates given his enthusiasm for Irish unity and anti-imperialism. Get your 3rd edition copy at the following link:

dulcenea_olguin: he hung out with oscar wilde! he defended roger casement! is it so impossible for there to be like a private letter out there where was like "I love my wife, on whom I would as a matter of record never stray from, but have you SEEN t e lawrence?"

cathaldapapa: 1 March 1965: Roger Casement's body was re-interred in Glasnevin Cemetery OTD. It was something of a coup to get the British to release his body but his dying wish was actually that he should be laid to rest in his beloved Co. Antrim & not in Dublin City.

thepainterflynn: Today in 1965 Roger Casement's body is re-interred in Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin

hoopsghirl88: 1st March 65 would finally see Roger casement laid to rest along side fellow comrades and honourable irish patriots

memreshkaf: Roger Casement’s dirty diaries.

theirishstory: Short article on Casement here:

IrishCentral: Roger Casement, a Dublin-born former knighted British civil servant, was hanged for treason in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Whritenour1: "What a Farce a Trial is. I Wonder if I'm anything to them Now?" (Sir Roger David Casement, CSG, Final Writings) I Wonder if I'm Anything to them Now. Wherever they Are.

softestpunk: Anyway Roger Casement is my new hero

JamesWims: “A nation is a very complex thing ... it never has consisted solely of one blood or of one simple race. "It is like a river, which rises far off in the hills and has many sources, many converging streams, before it becomes one great stream.” - Roger Casement (1864-1916).

BjCruickshank: As far as this Scot is concerned, Roger Casement speaks for me:

TroveAirRaidBot: Another Australian newspaper article about air raids! 27 Feb 1921, 'ARM-CHAIR AND BOOK The Lady Who Called Roger Casement a Blot on the Earth':

gerry_shannon: 'A nation is a very complex thing ... it never has consisted solely of one blood or of one simple race. It is like a river, which rises far off in the hills and has many sources, many converging streams before it becomes one great stream.' - Roger Casement, speaking in 1904.

littlemuseumdub: Roger Casement never looked so good.

Cristoforou: “Roger Casement: The Gay Irish Humanitarian Who Was Hanged On a Comma | Helen Andrews”

NaJuCro: 'Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth, a thing no more to be doled out to us by another people than the right to life itself or the right to love our kind' - Roger Casement. 1 de febrer, Sant Brígida. Patrona d'Irlanda i de la bella vall del riu Amera.

NotMattJ: Your regular "person in history you never heard of" post. Roger Casement A professional adventurer in the early part of the 20th century, he infiltrated the "Congo free state" and reported on King Leopold's crimes against humanity there

brianmagee31: Remembering Roger Casement

GertHere: Roger Casement looking like a batman baddy down in dun laoghaire this evening

CongolesCinIre: Welcoming the new team of CCI and appointed President to share his vision for CCI. The few special guest were: .Daithi Doolan (Sinn Fein Councillor) .Brid Smith (TD of People Before Profit) .Dave Alvey (Chair of Roger Casement Summer School

pucamusic: Do u ever just google pictures of roger casement

rorycarroll72: Roger Casement looking good this morning.

MichanikoMcleod: "god deliver me from such antiquaries as these, to hang a man on a comma, and throttle him with a semicolon." From Part 2 of the episode on the Gay Irish Knight, Roger Casement.

RASK0LNlK0V: Talking of irish republicans, I lately found out about a book by Vargas Llosa, The dream of the celt, which is apparently a novel based on Roger Casement’s life. I’ll be reading that soon, that’s for sure

LILGBT: This Tuesday! Online Event: Roger Casement Queer Icon of the 1916 Rising - A Disputed Legacy

_Sheehogue_: Today it’s Roger Casement

GCNmag: The London Irish LGBT Network is hosting an online event on Tuesday, January 24, exploring the legacy of Roger Casement, a hero of the 1916 Easter Rising. Register for a free ticket below!

evaobeirnee: jamie dornan in a roger casement biopic when

belfastboon: Who Framed Roger Casement

Maccadaynu: Also we don’t talk enough how much of a ride Roger Casement was

Luiseach: Roger Casement remains one of Ireland’s unrivalled rides

TheTomMallow: Interesting account of the trial of Roger Casement.

seanmcdon_org: An excerpt of a summary of the whistleblowing Casement Report (1905 - published and put before Westminster by Irish patriot Roger Casement) into violence, slavery and exploitation of indigenous peoples in the 'Belgian Congo' Rubber trades.

theirishfor: Roger Casement's name in Irish is Ruairí Mac Easmainn. I saw this photo of the Casement statue at Dun Laoghaire on Instagram and had to share it with you all; it's like an album cover.

RealPMurphy: 100 years ago - Free Staters take 20 year old IRA Vol. Eugene Fitzgerald from his aunt's house outside Ardfert, North Kerry. After breaking his legs they shoot him on the roadside near McKenna's Fort where Roger Casement was captured in 1916. Eugene died days after the shooting.

LILGBT: Book Your Free Ticket for our event on January 24th! Online Event: Roger Casement Queer Icon of the 1916 Rising - A Disputed Legacy

CBBurkean: Roger Casement on the periodic British habit of detonating European Civilisation for own gain. '{Britian} cheerfully contemplates Europe dominated by an Asiatic Power'

jd_kelleher: Of course, Roger Casement wasn't the only queer icon of the Rising. There were thousands, naturally. Either Padraig Pearse or his brother, Willie Pearse...or both...may have been queer.

LILGBT: Online Event: Roger Casement Queer Icon of the 1916 Rising - A Disputed Legacy

JacksonEmmet: An evening run to say hello to Roger Casement

StMacDarasCC: Congratulations to our three TY history students, Oisín Dennehy, Alessandra Libago and Béibhinn Spencer who won prizes for their brilliant Roger Casement essays.

JFACasey: When is someone going to give me an unlimited budget to develop a very gay Roger Casement biopic starring Michael Fassbender?

JFACasey: Development exec pals, leaving this article I wrote here for context:

P____70: The Ghost of Roger Casement, by W.B. Yeats.

AidanHynes5: Roger Casement

LabhrainAine: What, hang on, Ireland wants to host the euros or something? In Casement Park? Class. Sir Roger Casement was (possibly) gay? EVEN CLASSIER. and was a Sir cos of human rights work? CLASSY TO THE MAX BOYS yes, let England play Ireland in a stadium named after him yes yes yes

FrancisHMcCord: 'The boys of Ireland will keep green the graves of the Fenians and will keep their memories in their hearts, their example ever before them. The inheritance of chivalry is with us still— a motherland to serve, a fair country to be freed'. - Roger Casement in the Fianna Handbook

KarlBrophy: The moon, Mars (I think) and Sandycove’s Roger Casement. Observed on the way home from lunch.

EvenEzra: British consul Roger Casement's report led to the arrest and punishment of white officers responsible for cold-blooded murder during a rubber collecting expedition in 1903, including a Belgian national who caused the deaths of at least 122 Congolese natives. . . .

RobertBohan: Fancy a gay love poem to welcome in the New Year? Roger Casement was an Irish revolutionary, international anti-Colonialist & gay man. He’s known for his condemnatory report of Belgian colonialism & war crimes in Congo but not perhaps for his ‘poetry’

EvenEzra: rubber production quotas. British consul Roger Casement's report led to the arrest and punishment of white officers responsible for cold-blooded murder during a rubber collecting expedition in 1903, including a Belgian national who caused the deaths of at least 122 Congolese ...

raggedlines: Dun Laoghaire Baths are a bit of a joke but that Roger Casement statue is an absolute banger.

NiamhatMU: Striking against the black night, Mark Richards’ bronze statue of Sir Roger Casement on the jetty at Dun Laoghaire Baths. (read more

thomas_ferris: And Roger Casement keeping an eye on the excellent new infrastructure at Dun Laoghaire Harbour

p0nc_: 'Irish and German brotherhood' An Irish Vol. soldier clasps the hands of a German soldier. The German sun shines upon the scene. In Germany, Irish martyr Roger Casement tried to raise an Irish unit to fight the British from Irish prisoners of war Field postmarked October 5, 1915

inratsalley: I had the privilege of being one of the first Little Reviews on the Modernism/Modernity Print+ platform, reviewing Alison Garden's The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899–2016

blue_reeds: "For myself, I always feel anxiety in a court of justice when there is any possibility of the introduction of political passion. Justice is ever in jeopardy when passion is aroused." Lord Chief Justice Reading when summing up Roger Casement's trial, 1916

Mary2Drawz: What artworks would you like me to draw more of next year? It can be anything as long as I have interest in it (and yes, I have Sir Arthur Haselrige planned). Also need to draw Sir Roger Casement too

ShakeHandsBNice: I just thought it was funny to call Roger Casement (a man the British state was only able to execute through stoking homophobia to turn the British public against) a "queer."

RBOSull: Wait, are we doing “Roger Casement - gay?” discourse?

IrishTimes: Oisín O’Connor apologises over joke about Roger Casement statue which ‘hurt people I would never want to hurt’

IrishTimes: A Green councillor has deleted his tweet about the Roger Casement statue and said: “I am sorry for the stupid tweet I put out the other day, alluding to a word that gets used to hurt people. It hurt people I would never want to hurt."

MaryGillan3: The great Roger Casement towers over smaller men

DLR_Libraries: A lovely afternoon at the prizegiving for our inaugural Roger Casement essay writing competition for TY students, featuring Cathaoirleach of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Mary Hanafin, Chair of Roger Casement Summer School Dave Alvey and our own Carmel Kelly!

LkennyCathQtr: The Dún Laoghaire Baths have reopened after an €18 million refurbishment which included a new 35 metre long jetty & a statue of Roger Casement. Works also included the refurbishment of the baths pavilion and a refurbished Edwardian gazebo in beach garden.

Muinchille: The decorative choice of a statue of Sir Roger Casement to the baths with his apparently permanent seagull, adds another, yet deeper level.

ColizScott: Sir Roger Casement looking over the new Dún Laoghaire baths on a chilly December night.

swench: Manic Street Preachers announce a concept album about the life and times of Roger Casement.

bigmonsterlove: Doing a surf concept album based on Roger Casement.

KarlBrophy: The most impressive thing about this is that they managed to get the seagull off Roger Casement's head for the ceremony.

CallieCrawleySF: The Dún Laoghaire baths have reopened today with no pool???? But it’s time to see Roger Casement!!!

thejournal_ie: The baths have reopened after an €18 million refurbishment which included a new 35 metre long jetty and a statue of Roger Casement.

Whritenour1: First Jab 2/20/2021 February /2022: Diagnosed with esophageal cancer Died this morning. "God gave me to this Captivity and Death, and I Kiss the Divine hand that leads Me to the Grave." Sir Roger David Casement

AtomicKid11: In collaboration with Roger Casement, Morel led a campaign against slavery in the Congo Free State, founded the Congo Reform Association and published the West African Mail.

frankmcdonald60: Even glimpsed through temporary railings around the nearly-completed restoration of Dún Laoghaire Baths, the bronze statue of Sandycove-born Roger Casement, sculpted by Mark Richards, looks truly magnificent against the backdrop of Dublin Bay.

RobertBohan: Thread: Today is the anniversary of the establishment of the Congo Free State (1885-1908). It was the personal possession of Leopold II of Belgium. It is infamous as one of the worst crimes of colonialism. The work of Irishman Roger Casement revealed the horrors.

OPWKilmainham: This gold pocket watch inscribed with a Celtic cross was presented to Liam Mellows by the Roger Casement Branch of Friends of Irish Freedom in the USA in 1919 or 1920. He gave it to Eamon Martin, a fellow republican prisoner in Mountjoy, in 1922. 4/4

marxistJorge: Roger Casement hanged for treason in Pentonville prison on Aug 3, 1916, for his part in the Easter Rising. A former member of the British consular service, he became an anti imperialist after witnessing first hand the atrocities in South Africa, Belgian Congo and Putumayo, Perú.

aModernDandy: The question the visitors are asked at the end is beautifully worded to allow for these ambiguities, although I personally decided to leave a somewhat tongue in cheek and oversimplified praise of Roger Casement.

CenturyIRL: This week in 1914, Roger Casement was in Germany attempting to work out a deal with German authorities for Ireland. Read more here:

ChrisJosiffe: But I must do my duty And so I mean to land So in a small boat t’wards the shore On the lonely Banna Strand

BoodhuRamu: An extraordinary read WG Sebald wanders around Lowestoft + Southwold Chapter V about Joseph Conrad + Roger Casement and the colonial rampage in Congo Roger Casement is a remarkable man. An English knight, Irish Nationalist, English traitor (he was sentenced to death in 1916)

grimmse: Strong Roger Casement vibes, too

helen_rivron: This historical hunk poll was my first encounter with Irish twitter. You are a brilliant bunch and have kept me sane over the last few months ( Still think Roger Casement should have won though).

Whritenour1: The Ghost of Roger Casement Is beating on the door. John Bull has gone to India And all must pay him heed, Histories are there to prove That none of another breed Has had a like inheritance, There's no luck about a house If it lack Honesty William Butler Yeats

pa24824513: Roger Casement: gay Irish martyr or victim of a British forgery? | History books | The Guardian

pa24824513: BBC - History - 1916 Easter Rising - Insurrection - Sir Roger Casement and the German Connection

R4FcMuK7k8IhUKz: I hope people remember it was Casement Park were the IRA took 2 British soldiers. They beat them and stripped them before shooting them dead. That is the real Casement Park. Roger Casement was a Nationalist. He was well know for his love of young boys who he paid for s*X...



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