{"id":385454,"date":"2026-04-06T23:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385454\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:31:10","slug":"sam-mcbride-how-contradiction-in-a-suit-roger-casement-embodies-todays-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385454\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam McBride: How \u2018contradiction in a suit\u2019 Roger Casement embodies today\u2019s Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Knight of the realm, rebel, diplomat, friend and enemy of empires: a compelling new book underlines the nationalist hero\u2019s fractured identity\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roger Casement, diplomat turned gun-runner. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/662dd580-0995-4792-955f-1b93d380fb7b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Roger Casement, diplomat turned gun-runner. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Roger Casement sat in the dock in the Royal Courts of Justice in London 110 years ago, it was unprecedented in living memory: no knight of the realm had faced treason charges for centuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The evidence was conclusive and overwhelming. He had admitted conspiring with Britain\u2019s wartime enemy Germany to not only smuggle weapons into Ireland for an insurrection but had persuaded captured Irishmen fighting for Britain to change sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knight of the realm, rebel, diplomat, friend and enemy of empires: a compelling new book underlines the nationalist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,292,61,60,43,2443,113597,76258],"class_list":["post-385454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dublin","tag-germany","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland","tag-sam-mcbride","tag-world-war-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}