The dream of the Celt
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
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Book
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1st American ed.
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358 pages ; 24 cm
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Main Library - Adult
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English

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"Originally published in Spanish in 2010 by Alfaguara Ediciones, Spain, as El sueño del Celta."
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"In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world -- especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon -- but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became involved in a cause that led to his imprisonment and execution. Ultimately, the scandals surrounding Casement's trial and eventual hanging tainted his image to such a degree that his pioneering human rights work wasn't fully reexamined until the 1960s."--Dust jacket.

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