The dream of the Celt /
"In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world--especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon--but when he dared...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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| Summary: | "In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world--especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon--but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became involved in a cause that led to his imprisonment and execution. Ultimately, the scandals surrounding Casement's trial and eventual hanging tainted his image to such a degree that his pioneering human rights work wasn't fully reexamined until the 1960s."--Dust jacket. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Spanish in 2010 by Alfaguara Ediciones, Spain, as El sueño del Celta." |
| Physical Description: | 358 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780374143466 (alk. paper) 0374143463 (alk. paper) |