Burial of Casement in Glasnevin 'wrong' - campaign group

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A campaign group in Belfast has said that the burial of Roger Casement in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery is a "wrong that must be righted".

A campaign group in Belfast has said that the burial of Roger Casement in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery is a "wrong that must be righted".

The Roger Casement Commemoration and Reinterment Association, a branch within the Casement Social Club in West Belfast, has formally applied to move Roger Casement's remains from Glasnevin in Dublin to Murlough Bay on the tip of county Antrim.

The application is with Dublin City Council and the association is waiting on their decision.

"It was a wrong that we intend to right," said Alan Daly, chairperson of the association told RTÉ's This Week.

He was knighted by the British King in 1911 for his investigations into human rights abuses in the Congo Free State and Peru.

However, Casement became convinced that Ireland should not be part of Britain.

In 1914, he travelled to Germany where he tried to mobilise and arm Irish separatists who would fight for an independent Ireland.

He tried unsuccessfully to bring guns to Irish rebels for the Easter Rising but was arrested and brought to London.

He was buried in Pentonville Prison, but his remains were reinterred in Glasnevin Cemetery in 1965 following negotiations between British and Irish governments.

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