Roger Casement Books

Roger Casement was a humanitarian campaigner, an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist. A British consul by profession, he gained renown for his reports on human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru, but was more widely known for his dealings with Germany preceding the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. His experiences with colonialism, particularly in the Congo, steered him toward anti-imperialist and Irish separatist convictions. Casement sought German support for an Irish rebellion against British rule, ultimately leading to his arrest and execution for treason.