Early Day Motion·EDM 1517
ROGER CASEMENT
2 July 200316 Signatures
Primary sponsor
Jeremy Corbyn
Your Party — Islington North
Motion Text
That this House welcomes the display of Sir John Lavery's painting of Roger Casement's appeal at the National Portrait Gallery; welcomes the decision to send the painting on semi-permanent loan to Dublin; recognises that he made a huge contribution to Irish independence before his execution in Pentonville Prison in 1916; and deeply regrets that the only memorial to him, in the Borough of Islington, at the Roger Casement Irish Centre, was closed by the Liberal Democrat council in 2000.