Angus Mitchell to give talk on Roger Casement, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington & Revolutionary Ireland - TUH Kanturk, Wednesday, June 16th at 20.30
Féile Déthalla 2010 Talks/Music Series continues on wednesday, June 16th at 20.30 at the intimate and beautifully restored Trades Union Hall in Strand Street Kanturk.The talk is titled Roger Casement, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington & Revolutionary Ireland and the speaker is Angus Mitchell, who lives in Limerick and has lectured on campuses in the USA and Ireland.
Angus continues to publish on the life and after life of Roger Casement. and his very stimulating, interesting & widely acclaimed book on his life titled Casement (Life & Times) was published in April 2005. An online editorial review of the publication states:-
Roger Casement (1864-1916) is remembered in England as a "traitor", but passionately revered in Ireland as a founding father of the Irish State. By 1913, with an international reputation as a savior of the oppressed in Africa and South America, Sir Roger Casement resigned from the Foreign Office and devoted himself openly to the cause of Irish independence. He was a founder of the Irish Volunteers and soon after the outbreak of World War I traveled to Germany to seek international guarantees for Irish independence. Returning to Ireland in 1916, he was arrested on the eve of the Easter Rising, given a state trial in London and executed for high treason. Since his execution, Roger Casement’s place in history has become a riddle entwined in the waging of war followed by the delicate negotiation of peace that has defined Anglo-Irish politics. Was Roger Casement’s rebellious nature motivated as much by his ‘incorrigible’ Irishness as by his exposure of the appalling crimes against humanity that he witnessed in Africa and South America?
Angus Mitchell will talk on some of the local connections with Casement - his mother was a Jephson from Mallow - Hanna Sheehy Skeffington's rally in Hyde Park in 1936 on the 20th anniversary of his execution and the call for the repatriation of his body to Ireland: his body was exhumed from Pentonville Prison and Casement was given a State Funeral in Dublin and buried in Glasnevin with his comrades almost 50 years after the martyr's execution in London in 1916: - his connections with the Muscrai Gaeltacht as well as other aspects of the life of this extraordinary Irish Patriot.
(Click on the image to watch a You Tube film clip of Casements Funeral in Dublin.)
The scheduled talk Ballydesmond - England's Last Plantation has been deferred.
The June 16th talk will be followed (time permitting) by a music session at Bob's Bar, Percival Street commencing at 22.15 with some local musicians, singers and dancers.
Please support this interesting talk. Tá an cead isteach saor agus tá cead míle fáilte de gach duine. Light refreshments will be available and both venues are invalid friendly.
- Tim Browne - Féile Dúthalla 2010 Admin - 01.06.10
