Rory Carroll
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 1 Aug
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It was because he was a hero of the British Empire and he served very loyally and very effectively for many years.
He performed amazing feats in Africa, exposing horrors in Congo and depredations by the Belgian King Leopold.
And then he did it all over again in the Amazon, exposing abuses there against indigenous tribes.
So he was considered kind of a Victorian wonder man.
I mean, and for that, he was vetted as the greatest humanitarian of the age.
Well, he grew up in Antrim as a Protestant and he had always imbibed the legends and stories of rebels in Ireland.
And even when he served the British Crown as a Foreign Office Consul, that kind of sentimental attachment to Ireland never left him.
But it was after, during the 1900s, when he
He fell in love with the idea of the Irish language and Irish nationalism home rule, but then he became more radicalized and he felt that he turned against the British Empire.
He saw horrors in the Boer War and then he just felt that British Empire was a force of a baleful force that was strangling Ireland and the world.
And so he went so strong then against it.
Well, I would dispute that.
I mean, if there's maybe two antiheroes, I mean, Casement is an extremely flawed figure.
I mean, he was very heroic.
He could also be completely…
He was having a nervous breakdown.
He was completely exasperating to his own friends and allies.
But the core of the book of A Rebel and a Traitor is this pursuit.
It's a manhunt.
And in this case, his nemesis was Captain Reginald Blinker Hall.
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