An utility has been lodged to have the stays of a knight of the realm turned Easter Rising conspirator, Sir Roger Casement, moved to Northern Eire.
If profitable, it could be the second time Casement could have been exhumed and reburied.
Casement was initially interred within the grounds of Pentonville Jail in London, the place he was hanged in 1916 after being found returning to Eire aboard a U-boat following a visit to Germany to safe arms for Irish nationalists.
In 1965, his stays had been exhumed and dropped at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
However a commemoration society in his title, who’ve lodged the appliance, has stated it needs to “fulfil his want” of being buried in County Antrim.
The Roger Casement Commemoration and Re-interment Affiliation has utilized for an exhumation licence from Dublin Metropolis Council and Glasnevin Cemetery.
Particularly, they need to switch Casement’s stays from the Irish capital to Murlough Bay in County Antrim – the place, they stated, a person known as Patrick McCarry has agreed to permit the reburial on his floor.
In a letter on 25 July 1916, simply greater than every week earlier than his loss of life, Casement wrote: “Do not let my physique lie right here – get me again to the inexperienced hill at Murlough, by the McGarry’s home, wanting down on the Moyle, that is the place I would wish to be now, and there is the place I would wish to lie.”
