Roger Casement (1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement CMG between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat and later became a humanitarian activist, poet and Easter Rising leader.
He was executed in Pentonville Prison in 1916 after organising a shipment of German arms to Ireland at the time of the Easter Rising. 49 years after his execution in Pentonville Prison in England, the body of Roger Casement was returned to Ireland for burial in the Republican plot in Glasnevin Cemetery. Casement had wanted to be buried at Murlough Bay near Ballycastle but the British government refused, fearing this might cause trouble.