Roger Casement: Protestant British hero who became a 'rebel and a traitor'
Roger Casement was hanged in August 1916 for treason against the Crown. Formerly Sir Roger, his assistance to Germany during the First World Ward was undeniable and from a British point of view he was a traitor.
From from an Irish nationalist point of view, he was a rebel and a hero who now took his place in history among the martyrs of republicanism and the leader of the 1916 Rising.
No knight of the realm had faced treason charges for centuries, let alone be executed. His story was without precedent.
A Protestant Anglo-Irish man who had been a loyal servant of the British empire, he had…
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