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Alice Stopford
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Bethmann Hollweg
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Chancellor Theobald Von Bethmann Hollweg
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Count Bernstorff
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Easter Rising
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Erich Von Falkenhayn
First World War diplomacy
Foreign Office
Gaelic American
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German Foreign Office
German Government
German Military Attache
German-Irish wartime collaboration research
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Imperial German Government
Irish Brigade
Irish diaspora activism
Irish Nationalist Movement
Irish Prisoners
Irish revolutionary history
Irish Soldiers
Irish Volunteers
military intelligence operations
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Roger Casement
Royal Irish Regiment
Secretary Of State
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Sir Roger Casement
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Tralee Bay
transnational nationalism
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Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780714680705
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Prelude to the Easter Rising casts light upon the clandestine activities of Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany from 1914 to 1916.
German military intelligence and the Imperial Foreign Office had far-reaching plans to use the Irish in the war against Britain. Radical Irish-American leaders were behind Casement's mission to Berlin. It took some time for the highly sensitive and idealistic Casement to realize that neither the German General Staff nor the Imperial Chancellor was able or willing to lend full military support to the Irish. When Casement began to see that the rising would be a bloody massacre, he left for Ireland to halt the fatal development and, if necessary, sacrifice his own honour and life.
The carefully edited documents contained in this volume, mostly from the German Foreign Office archives in Bonn, present a full record of Casement's activities prior to Easter 1916. Over 80 years later, these papers have lost none of their emotional intimacy.
