Robert Emmet

Standard Name: Emmet, Robert

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Friends, Associates	Amanda McKittrick Ros	In a trinket box, AMKR kept Robert Emmet 's speech from the dock during his trial [in 1803], a withered pea pod that her first husband had eaten the peas from on his deathbed, and...
politics	Amanda McKittrick Ros	AMKR was loyal to the British throne and an ardent British nationalist. It is puzzling that her trinket box of prized possessions should include a copy, written in her own hand, of the final speech...
politics	Thomas Moore	TM was a great Irish patriot. In his youth he knew Robert Emmet of the United Irishmen and strongly opposed the 1800 Act of Union with England. His patriotism also inclined him to turn down...
Textual Production	Medbh McGuckian	MMG returned to political issues in Had I a Thousand Lives, a volume of poetry to honour the bicentenary of the executions of Irish patriot activists Robert Emmet and Thomas Russell . Emmet was...

A Catholic uprising began in Ireland; this became known as the Irish Rebellion.

Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.

137-8

Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.

68 (1798): 614ff.

Irish nationalist Robert Emmet mounted a rising which was designed to seize Dublin Castle and take the Viceroy hostage.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Irish patriot Thomas Russell was hanged by the British authorities at Downpatrick prison.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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