The Most Famous

DIPLOMATS from Ireland

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This page contains a list of the greatest Irish Diplomats. The pantheon dataset contains 90 Diplomats, 1 of which were born in Ireland. This makes Ireland the birth place of the 20th most number of Diplomats behind Mexico, and Belarus.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Irish Diplomats of all time. This list of famous Irish Diplomats is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Roger Casement (1864 - 1916)

With an HPI of 53.40, Roger Casement is the most famous Irish Diplomat.  His biography has been translated into 33 different languages on wikipedia.

Roger David Casement (Irish: Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru. In Africa as a young man, Casement first worked for commercial interests before joining the British Colonial Service. In 1891 he was appointed as a British consul, a profession he followed for more than 20 years. Influenced by the Boer War and his investigation into colonial atrocities against indigenous peoples, Casement grew to mistrust imperialism. After retiring from consular service in 1913, he became more involved with Irish republicanism and other separatist movements. During World War I, he made efforts to gain German military aid for the 1916 Easter Rising that sought to gain Irish independence. He was arrested, convicted and executed for high treason. He was stripped of his knighthood and other honours. Before the trial, the British government circulated excerpts said to be from his private journals, known as the Black Diaries, which detailed homosexual activities. Given prevailing views and existing laws on homosexuality, this material undermined support for clemency. Debates have continued about these diaries: a handwriting comparison study in 2002 concluded that Casement had written the diaries, but this was still contested by some.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Irish diplomats born between 1864 and 1864. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Irish diplomats include Roger Casement.

Deceased Irish Diplomats

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