THERE are few figures in Irish history as complex — or as contested — as Roger Casement.
To some, he remains a visionary patriot who gave his life for Ireland’s freedom. To others, he was a misguided idealist who placed his hopes in the wrong hands.
In A Rebel and a Traitor, Rory Carroll revisits that life in full, tracing the journey of a man whose story still echoes — not least in the haunting line: “And the wild waves sing his requiem on the lonely Banna Strand.”
Before he became a symbol of Irish rebellion, Casement had been something quite different: a celebrated servant of the British Empire.
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