Sir Roger Casement's Reburial

As was the custom at the time, Casement's body was buried in quicklime in the prison cemetery at the rear of Pentonville Prison, where he was hanged. In 1965, Casement's body was repatriated and, after a state funeral, was buried with full military honours in the Republican plot in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin after lying-in-state at Arbour Hill for five days when over half a million people are estimated to have filed past his coffin. The President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera, who in his mid-eighties was the last surviving leader of the Easter Rising, defied the advice of his doctors and attended the ceremony, along with an estimated 30000 Irish citizens. Casement's last wish, to be buried at Murlough Bay on the North Antrim coast has yet to be fulfilled as Harold Wilson's government only released the remains on condition that they were not brought into Northern Ireland.
Sir Roger Casement Reburial Easter Rising Glasnevin Cemetery Dublin Banna Strand Tralee Bay Excecution 1916 August
























