A painting recording the doomed appeal of Roger Casement against the death sentence has gone on public display in Britain for the first time.
The work, by Sir John Lavery, is on show in the National Portrait Gallery London until September 28th. It had been offered to the gallery by heirs of the artist in 1941 but was declined.
A spokesman for the gallery in London said there was "no political significance" to the decision to exhibit the painting, but that it was based on the "achievement" rather than the "notoriety" of the subject.
The two- by three-metre oil on canvas painting, temporarily returned from a long-term loan to the Kings Inns Dublin, depicts an isolated Casement, dead centre of the picture, looking straight out towards the jury box, as the defence counsel stands and addresses the judges in the foreground.
It is a "remarkable historical document", according to the Kings Inns. It will be returned to Ireland in October.
Roger Casement was arrested in Kerry in 1916, returning from Berlin, where he had been attempting to get support for the cause of Irish independence.
He was found guilty and hanged in Pentonville Prison. His remains were returned to Ireland and given a state funeral in 1965.