Noyes, Alfred.

The Accusing Ghost or Justice for Casement.

London, Victor Gollancz, 1957. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 191 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Cover is slightly torn in places especially at the top of spine. Some dogears and some foxing to the pages. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

Roger David Casement (1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), formerly known as Sir Roger Casement CMG between 1911 and shortly before his execution for treason, when he was stripped of his knighthood and other honours, was an Irish-born civil servant who worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, and later became a humanitarian activist, Irish nationalist, and poet. Described as the “father of twentieth-century human rights investigations”, he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in Peru. He then made efforts during World War I to gain German military aid for the 1916 Easter Rising that sought to gain Irish independence. In the early hours of 21 April 1916, three days before the rising began, Casement was taken by a German submarine and was put ashore at Banna Strand in Tralee Bay, County Kerry. Suffering from a recurrence of the malaria that had plagued him since his days in the Congo, and too weak to travel, he was discovered at McKenna’s Fort (an ancient ring fort now called Casement’s Fort) in Rahoneen (″Ráth Eoghainín”), Ardfert, and arrested on charges of treason, sabotage and espionage against the Crown. “He was taken to Brixton Prison to be placed under special observation for fear of an attempt of suicide. Casement unsuccessfully appealed against the conviction and death sentence. Casement was hanged by John Ellis and his assistants at Pentonville Prison in London on 3 August 1916, at the age of 51. (Wikipedia).

• Keywords: Catalogue Irish History Six – General Irish History · Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · Collection Tadhg Ó Murchú (This is a book from his personal reference library) · Easter Rising, 1916 · From the library of Tadgh Ó Murchu · Irish 1916 Revolution · Irish Easter Rising · Irish History · Irish History – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 100728AB

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