Our Kind

The film concerns an imagined future life of Roger Casement, a human rights advocate and one of the leaders of the 1916 rebellion against British rule in Ireland. He was captured, convicted of treason and executed at Pentonville Prison later the same year. At his trial Casement’s diaries which detailed sexual relationships with other men were submitted as evidence of his moral corruption and amoral character. It took many decades for Casement’s reputation to be rehabilitated and for his contribution to Irish independence and the human rights legacy he left behind to be fully acknowledged.

The film’s title references the speech Casement made at his trial in 1916. “Self-government is our right, a thing born in us at birth, a thing no more to be doled out to us, or withheld from us by another people, than the right to life itself — than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers, or to love our kind.”

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