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DOD/3/47020
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Funeral/burial Roger Casement and others: private J.J. Daly (ex Connaught Rangers).
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1965 - 1971 |
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File contains material relating to the repatriation and re-internment of the remains of Roger Casement on 1 March 1965. This material includes three copies of ceremonial orders which detail the ceremonies at Baldonnel aerodrome, Arbour Hill barracks, the pro-cathedral, and Glasnevin cemetery Dublin. File also contains four maps; 2 of Baldonnel aerodrome, and 2 of the gravesite and surrounding area at Glasnevin cemetery, a document regarding the logistics of filming the funeral for television, and miscellaneous letters to the Roinn Cosanta (Department of Defence) and the president from persons wishing to attend ceremonies or with suggestions regarding them. There are letters from Sean Lemass and President Eamon de Valera congratulating the Minister for Defence on the success of the arrangements. There is also material relating to the purchase by Michael Francis Doyle (Casement’s defence attorney) in July 1959 of a plot in Glasnevin cemetery for Casement’s remains. This material includes a copy ‘right of burial certificate’. Material also details the presentation and placement of the Casement Grave Tablet from Glasnevin in the Chapel at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel.. The remaining material pertaining to the Casement funeral relates to financial matters. These include departmental and inter-departmental memoranda, invoices, money orders, and statements of account created by both civilian and military service and material providers, Ceannsaíocht an Oirthir (Eastern Command), Department of Defence, Roinn Gnothaí Eachtrachta (Department of External Affairs), and Roinn Airgeadais (Department of Finance). There was initial confusion as to who should pay for the construction of the vault, as documented in a memorandum dated 25 February 1965 by D.M. O’Cleirigh (D.M. Clery), runaí cúnta, Roinn Cosanta (assistant secretary, Department of Defence). O’Cleirigh asserts that the army had no right to agree to carry out the work when approached by Mr. Sean Ronan, the assistant secretary of the Department of External Affairs, as this work did not come under the financial vote of the Department of Defence. Those expenditures associated with the funeral paid by Eastern Command and the Department of Defence were repaid by the Department of External affairs under sanction of the Department of Finance. Total funeral expenditure amounted to £537-7-9.
Four items in this file relate to the repatriation of the remains of Private James Joseph Daly in 1970. Daly had been court-martialed and executed in India 2 November 1920 due to his part in the mutiny of the Connaught Rangers. These documents also detail the debate surrounding military involvement in the dedication of a memorial at Ballymoe, in August 1971. Military involvement was eventually rejected by the Taoiseach (Prime Minister).
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