1864-1916

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1864-1916

The dream of the Celt

2012
A fictionalized account of the life and career of Roger Casement, who fought for human rights of oppressed people in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon, but who was ultimately hanged by the British government in 1916 for treason, because he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in the African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland.
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