August 3, 1916, the ex-British diplomat Roger Casement was hanged as a traitor in London. In the midst of the First World War, he had attempted to recruit Irish prisoners-of-war in Germany in an effort to free Ireland from British control.

To the British government, which had once knighted him, Casement’s treason was abject. To the Irish nationalists whose cause he served, he was a hero.

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