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*In his 1914 book *The Crime Against Ireland and How the War May Right it*, Sir Roger Casement wrote, “Sedition (is) the natural garment for an Irishman to wear”. Casement wore it well. A participant in the preparations for the 1916 Easter Rising, Casement arrived in at Banna Strand in Co. Kerry (northwest of Tralee) on board a ship from Germany with a large consignment of weaponry for the rebels. However the rendezvous did not take place and Casement was captured on April 21, 1916. He was subsequently held in Pentonville Prison in London and hung for treason on August 3. **At his trial, he made a speech from the dock; he had written the body of it while in prison. Below is the text. I have broken up some paragraphs which were huge in the original.* *This text is longer than that often found on the internet. I have taken it from *The Great Prisoners: the first anthology of literature written in prison*, selected and edited by Isidore Abramavotich, New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1946. Abramovitch lists the range of his Casement sources on p869.* I have added subheads to break up the text. . . https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2020/01/24/our-choice-lay-in-submitting-to-foreign-lawlessness-or-resisting-it-and-we-did-not-hesitate-to-choose-roger-casement-on-trial-for-his-life/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
