Effigy legend
Roger Casement was executed for subversiveness
An prescribed observance has been held in County Kerry to scrape the function of Roger Casement and his colleagues in the Easterly Ascent. They arrived arrived at Banna Ground on 21 April 1916 in a German U-boat as parting of a contrive to demesne guns and ammo for the uprising. Casement was after time-tested, constitute shamefaced of betrayal and executed.
Chair Michael D Higgins delivered the tonic speak at the chain and lay a coronal. Roger Casement, who fagged his juvenility in County Antrim, was a man rights militant and early older British diplomatist, off Irish nationalistic.
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Persona legend
Chairman Michael D Higgins arrives at Banna Ground
His reports on the using of rubberlike thralldom in the Congou and Brazil resulted in his organism awarded a knighthood.
During Mankind War 1 he traveled to Germany and attempted to levy an Irish Brigade from Irish prisoners of war and staged a despatch of weapons.
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Xx 1000 guns were confused when the German payload transport, Aud, was intercepted by the Majestic Navy and scuttled in Bobber Haven.
The ceremonial besides pronounced the office of Robert Monteith and Daniel Bailey, who attended Casement on his delegation.
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