The Burial of Roger Casement

The Burial of Roger Casement

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Details

Location

Ballycastle, Dublin

Year

1965

Date

Production 28/02/1965

Length

02min 56sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

A sod is removed from the requested burial spot of Roger Casement at Murlough Bay near Ballycastle. It would be buried in his grave at Glasnevin and we see the removal procession to his final resting spot in Dublin and the burial ceremony. Éamon de Valera and Seán Lemass both attend.

Notes

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. 

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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