Patrick Marnham

Sir Roger Casement never deserved to hang

Executed as one of the leaders of the Easter Rising, he was absent from Dublin at the time of the doomed insurrection – and actually tried to prevent it

Sir Roger Casement does not fit either the heroic Irish narrative of his life or the official English account. [George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images]

  • Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement

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    Bodley Head, pp. 382, £25

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