Unquiet Ghost: The Bones of Roger Casement (with Rory Carroll)

Three Castles Burning by Donal Fallon

Apr 30, 202631:16Society & Culture

In 1965, the body of Roger Casement was returned to Ireland. No longer condemned to the grounds of Pentonville Prison, he would be buried in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery, where he is one of the first graves a visitor enco...

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