Roger Casement relative backs campaign for rebel’s remains to be reinterred in Co Antrim

A group advocating for the remains of Roger Casement to be moved to Co Antrim has said a bloodline relative of the Easter Rising organiser has thrown his “full weight” behind the campaign.Casement was executed on August 3, 1916 in London’s Pentonville Prison, after being found guilty of treason for his role in planning the rising. One of the Co Dublin-born rebel’s last wishes, outlined in a letter to his cousin Elizabeth Bannister days before he was hanged, was to be buried at Murlough Bay on the north coast of Co Antrim, where he spent part of his childhood following the death of his father.The diplomat and human rights pioneer wrote that the area, with its “great panorama of island and hill and swirling waters” was what “made me realise what Ireland was to me”.The Roger Casement memorial