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Roger Casement
Sign in to saveAlso known as Roger David Casement, Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn, Ruairi Daithi Mac Easmainn, Ruairí Mac Easmainn, Sir Roger Casement
Irish diplomat, activist, nationalist and poet (1864–1916)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Some Poems
- Fianna Handbook
- Trial of Sir Roger Casement [microform]
- Gesammelte Schriften
- Crime Against Europe a Possible Outcome of the War Of 1914
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
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- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
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- An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust
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- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
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- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,616x
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Quotes
- “On Sunday evening, natives brought me a mutilated lad, who's right hand had been hacked of quite recently, the cold thread was a century of lalu longa, a Belgian trading society, when i asked why they had not appealed to their commissar, i heard from them, well it is the commissar, it is the Bula Matari, who does these things to us.”
- “In 1887 i spend several months on the upper Congo, and i traveled over some of the grounds i now revisit in the absence of 10 years, the country was thickly populated, frequent and populous towns, but many of the inhabitants have been killed by the government, man and woman.”
- “Of the persistent mutilation by government soldiers, there can be no shadow of a doubt, should the system maintain forced labor on this scale, i believe the entire population will be extinct in thirty years.”
- “Infamous, infamous shameful system.”
- “When up in those lonely Congo forests where I found Leopold I also found myself – the incorrigible Irishman.”
- “Tackling Leopold in Africa has set in motion a big movement – it must be a movement of human liberation all the world over.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1864-09-01 ) 1 September 1864, Sandycove , County Dublin, Ireland
- Died
- 3 August 1916 (1916-08-03) (aged 51), Pentonville Prison , London, England
- Cause of death
- Execution by hanging
- Monuments
- Casement Monument at Ballyheigue Beach Roger Casement Statue at Dún Laoghaire Baths
- Citizenship
- British subject
- Occupations
- Diplomat, poet, humanitarian activist
- Organisation
- British Foreign Office
- Title
- a knighthood for his efforts on behalf of the Amazonian Indians, having been appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1905 for his Congo work.
- Movement
- Irish nationalism Anti-imperialism
- Parents
- Roger Casement (father) Anne Jephson (mother)
- Buried
- Glasnevin Cemetery , Dublin
- Allegiance
- Irish Republic
- Branch
- Irish Volunteers
- Service years
- 1913-1916
- Memorials
- Tralee Casement railway station Casement Aerodrome
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Encyclopedic overview
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 executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I.
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 Free State and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roger Casement” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.