Wednesday July 19th 1916

by Conor Kelly, 27 May 2009

The Daily Mirror in London publishes a front-page photograph of a condemned Roger Casement leaving Bow Street Police Magistrates Court for the gallows at Pentonville Prison. The headline reads ‘Casement’s Appeal fails:” He was the king’s liege wherever he might be”. In the same year as the battles at Jutland and the Somme – the year that Dada crawled out from the wrenching guts of Europe and George Bernard Shaw wrote his Nobel Prize-winning Pygmalion – Casement was hung until dead and his remains placed in a quick limed mass grave at Pentonville.