Rory Carroll
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 1 Aug
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And he was the head of Admiralty Intelligence, which at that time, and we're talking about the First World War, had the greatest intelligence network.
So he was at the center of this web.
And he was tracking casements.
And he wanted to catch casements because he had
despised him.
What was his preoccupation with Casement?
Why did he despise him?
Because at the outset of the war, Casement turned up in Germany, of all places.
And, you know, he turned his back on the British Empire.
And at the time of Greatest
peril when the British Empire is fighting for its life against the German Empire was then that Casement, from the British perspective, tries to drag a dagger into the heart of the British Empire.
And so he's there in Germany trying to muster guns and weapons and recruit prisoners of war for an invasion of Ireland.
Yes, that was his idea.
He wanted to do like what Wolfe Tone had done or previous rebels to kind of, you know, recruit from the ranks of Irish prisoners.
And it just backfired.
He completely didn't understand these guys had joined up the British Army before the war.
And a lot of them were from Dublin.
They were at Leinster Fusiliers.
And they...
Their pay packets were paying for their wives and children back home.
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