Comments on: 1916: Sir Roger Casement http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/03/1916-sir-roger-casement/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:12:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Kevin http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/03/1916-sir-roger-casement/#comment-7959 Kevin Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:43:47 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=346#comment-7959 Casement is a historical subject who is yet to receive full and comprehensive study. Had it not been for the 'Howth Mausers', acquired by him, Erskine Childers and company before the war, it is unlikely that the Easter Rising would have happened at all. His return to Ireland is both romantic and heroic. His demeanor under trial is classically courageous and the issue of his homosexuality is more than likely a British contrivation in the same class as the proverbial apostrophe. There's a good book in this tale. Casement is a historical subject who is yet to receive full and comprehensive study.

Had it not been for the ‘Howth Mausers’, acquired by him, Erskine Childers and company before the war, it is unlikely that the Easter Rising would have happened at all.

His return to Ireland is both romantic and heroic. His demeanor under trial is classically courageous and the issue of his homosexuality is more than likely a British contrivation in the same class as the proverbial apostrophe.

There’s a good book in this tale.

]]> By: ExecutedToday.com » Themed Set: The Ballad http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/03/1916-sir-roger-casement/#comment-6545 ExecutedToday.com » Themed Set: The Ballad Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:47:31 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=346#comment-6545 [...] commemorating doomed revolutionaries or doomed criminals, the ballad remains a part of our collective memory-shaping to give we who [...] [...] commemorating doomed revolutionaries or doomed criminals, the ballad remains a part of our collective memory-shaping to give we who [...]

]]> By: ExecutedToday.com » 1916: James Crozier, an Irishman in His Majesty’s service http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/03/1916-sir-roger-casement/#comment-3727 ExecutedToday.com » 1916: James Crozier, an Irishman in His Majesty’s service Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:56:49 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=346#comment-3727 [...] these loyal units from both north and south while Ireland teetered on the brink of of civil war and some of its partisans treated with the Germans was naturally valorized by the [...] [...] these loyal units from both north and south while Ireland teetered on the brink of of civil war and some of its partisans treated with the Germans was naturally valorized by the [...]

]]> By: ExecutedToday.com » 1895: Charles Stokes, in the heart of darkness http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/03/1916-sir-roger-casement/#comment-3395 ExecutedToday.com » 1895: Charles Stokes, in the heart of darkness Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:16:07 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=346#comment-3395 [...] incident didn’t catch fire itself, it became a stick in the accumulating dry tinder that Sir Roger Casement set a spark to in the early 20th [...] [...] incident didn’t catch fire itself, it became a stick in the accumulating dry tinder that Sir Roger Casement set a spark to in the early 20th [...]

]]> By: Queer History: Sir Roger Casement is hanged | PrideDEPOT.com http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/03/1916-sir-roger-casement/#comment-1334 Queer History: Sir Roger Casement is hanged | PrideDEPOT.com Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:04:59 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=346#comment-1334 [...] The gay rights movement has seen a posthumous redefinition of Casement; although homosexuality was not on the indictment against him, one could argue that it was the reason he hanged. Given recent handwriting forensics that support the diaries’ authenticity, the general‡ consensus about the Black Diaries has inverted with the effect of only heightening sympathy for their alleged author, albeit at the expense of some tension over how to situate that characteristic within the whole of Casement’s life and thought. – Source: ExecutedToday.com [...] [...] The gay rights movement has seen a posthumous redefinition of Casement; although homosexuality was not on the indictment against him, one could argue that it was the reason he hanged. Given recent handwriting forensics that support the diaries’ authenticity, the general‡ consensus about the Black Diaries has inverted with the effect of only heightening sympathy for their alleged author, albeit at the expense of some tension over how to situate that characteristic within the whole of Casement’s life and thought. – Source: ExecutedToday.com [...]

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