High Treason : Roger Casement

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Tent. High Treason : Roger Casement / Alan Phelan : Our Kind, Dublin, Dublin City Gallery The High Lane, 10-03-2016, 02-10-2016. - Marking the 2016 Easter Rising commemorations, Sir John Lavery's monumental painting, High Treason: The Appeal of Roger Casement, The Court of Criminal Appeal, 17 and 18 July 1916 moves from Kings Inns where it has been on loan from the UK Government Art Collection since 1951 to be the centrepiece of this historic exhibition in 2016. This painting depicts the last day of Roger Casement's appeal against the sentence of death for treason before five judges of the Court of Criminal Appeal in London. Lavery's painting is one of the most significant accounts of the events surrounding the 1916 Rising. 'Our Kind' is a short film by Alan Phelan which imagines a future for Roger Casement had he not been executed in 1916