Hellraisers Journal: Sir Roger Casement Captured after Failed Attempt to Land Arms for Irish Rebels
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Thursday April 27, 1916
From the New York Evening World: Casement's Ship Blown Up After Capture
Headlines from Wednesdays Evening News:
From the New York Times of April 26, 1916:
LONDON, Wednesday, April 26.-Almost coincidental with the capture of Sir Roger Casement, leader of the Separatist faction in Ireland, while he was attempting to land arms from Germany on the coast of Ireland, there has occurred in Ireland a revolutionary outbreak of considerable proportions.
So far as has been announced by the British government only Dublin is affected. Here serious fighting took place Monday between regular troops, volunteers, and policemen against members of the Sinn Fein society who had captured the Post Office and Stephen's Green and numerous houses in various parts of the city....
[Photograph added.]
SOURCES
The Evening World
(New York, New York)
-Apr 26, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/78663819/
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-Apr 26, 1916
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A04E1DD113FE233A25755C2A...
IMAGES
Easter Rising, Casement Captured, NY Evening World, Apr 26, 1916
Easter Rising of 1916, Martial Law, NY Evening World, Apr 26, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/78663819/
Roger Casement, Martyr of Easter Rising of 1916
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Casement
See also:
"President honours Casement’s ‘empathy for the oppressed’
Wreaths laid at Banna Strand to mark centenary of capture after arrival on U-boat"
-by Ronan McGreevy
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/president-honours-case...
More on the capture of Roger Casement from Spartacus Educational:
http://spartacus-educational.com/IREcasement.htm
http://spartacus-educational.com/SSthomson.htm
On 4th April 1916, Casement was told that a German submarine would be provided to take him to the west coast of Ireland, where he would rendezvous with a ship carrying arms. The Aud, carrying the weapons, set out from Lübeck on 9th April with instructions to land the arms at Tralee Bay. Unfortunately for Casement, Reginald Hall, the director of Naval Intelligence Division of the Royal Navy (NID), had discovered details of this plan. On 12th April Casement set out in a German U-boat, but because of an error in navigation, Casement failed to arrive at the proposed rendezvous with the ship carrying the weapons. Casement and his two companions, Robert Monteith and David Julian Bailey, embarked in a dinghy and landed on Banna Strand in the small hours of 21st April. Basil Thomson, using information supplied by NID, arranged for the arrest of the three men in Rathoneen.
Comments
Personal theory:
You only get massive wars that kill massive amounts of people with massive countries.
Little wars are considerably less violent, if a bit more passionate. (Unless of course a big country is bankrolling it, in which case it's even uglier)
I am of the belief that if people had to pay for their wars on a personal level, they'd only be fought for good reasons.
But once again, that ties into my belief that the fastest way to get somebody to abhor war is to give them close, personal experience with it.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
one of the poems written about the execution of Connolly
asked what made the Irish Rebels so ready to die, the answer was, of course,
300 and some years of British Tyranny. That's what happens after many many years of tyranny when the people feel they have no other recourse.
Our own oligarchs should think about that and stop disenfranchising citizens and otherwise rigging the vote.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Yikes. When they bust you for weapons smuggling, it means
big trouble. Unless you're working for the bastards, of course. Then you get a reprimand and told to do better next time. This can't end well. TY and enjoy your evening, JaeRaye.
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
"This can't end well." Here's a preview:
It ended with Roger Casement declaring: "I die for my country."
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
I read your post yesterday
about the Easter Rising. I also listened to the reading of the proclamation in both the Irish language (which I don't think I have ever heard before) and then in English. I also listened to the few clips of the ballads. I'm interested because I don't know much about this history and I have some family over there. Anyway, I appreciated this thanks.
me too, radntx, I'm mostly learning as I go here
Of course I heard about the Easter Rising before, but this is the first time that I'm really studying it. Spent a whole day at youtube watching vids and listening to songs. Wish we would honor our labor martyrs with ballads in the same way that the Irish Rebel have been honored.
What i never realized before was that the Rising was front page news in NYC for days. Banner Headlines, esp, for the NY Evening News.
Irish unionist and Socialist in NYC esp followed the news closely. James Connolly lived in NYC for several years in the early 1900s and was well known there. He and his family were close to the family of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
I get the impression that the Irish
tend to honor their Rebels and their labor leaders. Again, I am no expert, but their music, statuary, art, even some literature conveys that these heros are held in esteem. I don't think we have that big of a place in our culture for such heros.
It also seems to me that the Irish were relegated to working class status and often times crushing poverty by the imperialistic British occupation. I would think that when that happens in your own country it would tend to make you rebellious. Then there was the potato famine and the way the Brits handled that crisis. Those who stood against such abuse deserve hero status.
There are parallels between the struggles in Ireland and struggles of exploited people everywhere including here. Unfortunately with our huge income inequality and lack of opportunity for our own citizens our country is turning into a place where more and more people are feeling exploited. Of course that has always been the case to a degree. Some suffered more than others. All we have to look at is our own labor history as you so consistently point out in your posts. Then.... Slavery....
It just seems that to me that instead of solving our problems we're repeating the worst of our mistakes from the past.
Looking at the issues you highlight makes me explore the connections of the past with our own situation.
And the videos I've found of Irish school children honoring the
martyrs thru song, so good to see. Brings me to tears every time. Imagine if we had our children singing "Solidarity Forever" at school concerts and singing of Joe Hill, Mother Jones, etc. Unions would be strong and growing instead of dying.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Very true.
Throughout my whole years of being "educated", including college, I was taught almost nothing about the struggles of labor in this country. The same is true for my extended family.
Thomas Clarke lived in US for decades
Before returning to Ireland to foment revolution (again). My great grandfather regularly bought tobacco from him in his Dublin shop, with my grandmother in tow as a little girl.
Thomas Clarke is our Thomas Paine - the overarching genius and true leader of them all, who is too radical to be celebrated.
I highly recommend Dorthy Macardle's The Irish Republic and Max Caulfield's The Easter Rebellion. If you are ever in Dublin yourself there's a great little book A Walk through Rebel Dublin 1916 by Mick O'Farrell, shows you pictures of all the sites, then and now side-by-side.
I'm just getting to know Thomas Clark and admire him so much.
The only one of the Irish Martyrs of 1916 that I was familiar with before this was James Connolly. So it has been honor to make the acquaintance of these brave heroes.
thx for tips on books, gendjinn.
The Bold Thomas Clark
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Clarke & Connolly were the most revered in my home
There were many the bitter arguments that the main street of Dublin should be Connolly St, not O'Connell St.
It is most fitting that the train station on the north side of Dublin is Connolly Station, given the critical role the transport unions played in achieving victory in the War of Independence. They refused point blank to transport any British soldiers, ammunition or supplies. Ever. Bravest of them all.