1864-1916. Irish nationalist. While in the
British consular service, he exposed the
ruthless exploitation of the people of the
Belgian Congo and Peru, for which he was
knighted in 1911 (degraded 1916). He was
hanged for treason by the British for his
part in the Irish republican Easter Rising.
In 1914 Casement went to Germany and
attempted to induce Irish prisoners of war to
form an Irish brigade to take part in a
republican insurrection. He returned to
Ireland in a submarine in 1916 (actually to
postpone, not start, the Easter Rising), was
arrested, tried for treason, and hanged.