Roger Casement remembered in west Belfast

A specially commissioned bust of 1916 Easter Rising figure Roger Casement has been unveiled at a west Belfast social club named in his honour.Mr Casement was executed in an English prison for his part in planning the Easter Rising in 1916.Brought up in Co Antrim, he was a former human rights activist and British diplomat.He was involved in a failed attempt to import weapons from Germany which were to be used in the planned rising.GAA social club named in honour of Roger Casement launches campaign for return of remains to Co AntrimOpens in new windowRoger Casement He was arrested, tried and hanged at Pentonville Prison in London on August 3, 1916, before his remains were buried in quicklime in the jail’s cemetery.His final wish was that his body would be brought back to Murlough Bay, in Co