Word: irelands
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...Roger Casement,* wrapped it in sacking, and placed it gently in a wooden coffin. Before his 1916 execution as a traitor, Casement's last request was: "When they have done with me, don't let my bones lie in this dreadful place. Take me back to Ireland and let me lie there." In a long-delayed but gracious gesture, Prime Minister Harold Wilson granted Casement's dying wish...
Parliament hailed the news with a cheer. An M.P. from Northern Ireland thanked the Prime Minister "for this wonderful news." Wilson replied cautiously, "I would not myself call it wonderful news. I think it is a satisfactory end to an unhappy chapter." The British mood was well expressed by the Daily Telegraph: "However heinous his guilt may still be thought, he paid for it in full: it is time to close the account...
Investigated Horrors. Casement's treason occurred in World War I. Like most Irish patriots, he believed the axiom that "England's extremity is Ireland's opportunity." Casement went to Germany and tried to raise an Irish Brigade from among British prisoners-of-war, but could get only 53 volunteers. In April of 1916, Casement and two other Irishmen landed on the Galway coast from a German submarine; they were captured the next day. The result was one of the century's most notorious treason trials. In its mixture of nationalist hate and sexual perversion, it seemed...
...murder even more shocking than those of the Congo. He was a man of passionate idealism and undoubted courage. Joseph Conrad thought him "a limpid personality" with "a touch of the conquistador in him." After Casement resigned from the consular service in 1913, he was caught up in Ireland's seething demand for home rule, denouncing Britain as the "bitch and harlot of the North...
People have suspected for years that somewhere in that grand French personality there was a touch of fighting Irish blood. Now French and Irish genealogists can prove it. And who should it be that Charles de Gaulle, 74, hails back to but Rudricus the Great, who ruled Ireland with might and main for 70 years before he died in 219 B.C. His descendants took the name MacCartan, and in 1711, a MacCartan emigrated from the Auld Sod to France where he married convent-educated Susanne Decoetlogon, who bore him five children, one of whom turned out to be De Gaulle...