Good Friday, 1916. A German U-boat penetrates British defenses to land a frail old man on a desolate Irish beach. He is a world-famous humanitarian, knighted by the British Empire for his extraordinary service. He will soon become the first knight of the empire to be hung for treason since the time of Henry the Eighth -- and perhaps the last man to be executed by a Western democracy primarily for being gay. He is Roger Casement: the Great War's most notorious traitor, and Ireland's most controversial hero.Dying for Ireland is a fictional imagining of Casement's prison diaries -- an intimate portrait of a remarkable man, and an astonishing story of what one man can accomplish.
Good Friday, 1916. A German U-boat penetrates British defenses to land a frail old man on a desolate Irish beach. He is a world-famous humanitarian, knighted by the British Empire for his extraordinary service. He will soon become the first knight of the empire to be hung for treason since the time of Henry the Eighth -- and perhaps the last man to be executed by a Western democracy primarily for being gay. He is Roger Casement: the Great War's most notorious traitor, and Ireland's most controversial hero.Dying for Ireland is a fictional imagining of Casement's prison diaries -- an intimate portrait of a remarkable man, and an astonishing story of what one man can accomplish.