Robert Emmet

Standard Name: Emmet, Robert

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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...
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...
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...

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

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

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

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