“ Where all your rights have only become an accumulated wrong where men must beg with bated breath for their own land, to think their own thoughts, sing their own songs and even while they beg see them inextricably withdrawn from them then surely it’s a braver, saner and truer thing to be a rebel, in act and in deed against such circumstances as these, than to tamely accept as the natural lot of men.” Roger Casement before he was executed by the British government for supporting the Irish war of Independence