Clodagh Finn: The Kerry woman who needed ‘witness protection’

Farm servant Mary Gorman's life took an unimaginable course after giving testimony in the trial of Roger Casement, ending up in New York, where she disappeared from the historical record. What became of her? The search continues

Mary Gorman while in London to give evidence at Roger Casement's trial in 1916. 

There’s a film in the story of Mary Gorman, the farm servant whose life took an unimaginable course after she happened to see Roger Casement walking along the road in Ardfert, Co Kerry, with two other men on Good Friday morning of 1916.

Her accidental sighting took her to London and introduced her to celebrity of sorts, as outlined here last week. Her brief moment of fame (or infamy, depending on how you look at it) backfired cruelly when she returned home.