“Casement Park?”
There was high degree of puzzlement when the British and Irish associations revealed their Belfast venue for the European Championship finals in 2028. Windsor Park, fine: century-old home to Linfield and Northern Ireland’s national team. But Casement Park? That was a new one.
Social historians recognised the name more than football fans did. Sir Roger Casement was a diplomat turned Irish nationalist who was among 16 rebels executed after the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, hence his being memorialised in the naming of a Gaelic Games stadium in Andersonstown, west Belfast, in the early 1950s.
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