On this day in … 1916


Sir Roger Casement was hanged at Pentonville Prison in London. He had been convicted of treason for his role in the Irish Easter Rising for independence.

Casement’s execution, along with 14 other executions at Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin and the shooting of Thomas Kent in Cork, would help to turn public opinion decisively against the British in most of Ireland.

Sir Roger Casement By National Library of Ireland on The Commons (Sir Roger Casement  Uploaded by russavia) [see page for license], via Wikimedia Commons