The Mick Clifford Podcast: A hero's broken wings - Roger Casement
Roger Picture: Getty Casement
One of the most tragic figures from the revolutionary period was Roger Casement, global humanitarian, Irish rebel, hung as a traitor.
A new biography provides a fascinating account of this complex figure and the times he lived in.
It also answers definitively the questions around whether his diaries, used to blacken his name ahead of his execution, were forged.
The book’s author, Ronald Phillips is this week’s guest on the podcast.
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