Britain hanged Roger Casement in 1916 and buried him in quicklime, returned him to Dublin in 1965 on condition he stay out of the North, and in October 2026 his supporters applied to move him

Roger Casement was put ashore at Banna Strand, County Kerry, on 21 April 1916 and arrested with malaria at an old fort nearby. His trial for high treason opened on 26 June 1916 at the Royal Courts of Justice. He was convicted and sentenced to hang, and his appeal failed. His knighthood was forfeited on 29 June. British intelligence showed police typescripts of his diaries to the press and influential people, portraying him as a "sexual deviant" and undermining calls for clemency. He was hanged at Pentonville on 3 August 1916, aged 51, and buried in quicklime in the prison cemetery. The diaries stayed closed until 1959. His last wish was burial at Murlough Bay, on the north Antrim coast. In 1965 Harold Wilson's government released the remains on condition they not go to Northern Ireland, for fear of sectarian reaction. They lay in state for five days in Dublin and were buried with full military honours in the Republican plot at Glasnevin. President Éamon de Valera and about 30,000 others attended. On 22 October 2026 the Roger Casement Commemoration and Re-interment Association applied to Dublin City Council and Glasnevin Cemetery for an exhumation licence. His relative James Casement co-signed, and landowner Patrick McCarry has offered land at Murlough Bay. Status: application pending, no decision reported.