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Robert Emmet was just 24 when he died in the aftermath of a second rebellion against Britain. His death capped five years of revolution in Ireland that killed some 30,000 people, often in waves of atrocities committed by both sides of the conflict.
Sep 16, 2024 · Robert Emmet (born 1778, Dublin—died Sept. 20, 1803, Dublin) was an Irish nationalist leader who inspired the abortive rising of 1803, remembered as a romantic hero of Irish lost causes.
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Robert Emmet (4 March 1778 – 20 September 1803) was an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. Following the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise a renewed attempt to overthrow the British Crown and Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, and to establish a nationally representative government.
The remains of Emmet's body was taken to Bully's Acre in the grounds of what is now the Royal Hospital Kilmainham and buried there. A shot of the digging in St Peter’s Church, Aungier Street.
Jan 20, 2021 · Wednesday night's programme will tell the story of Emmet and his tragic love affair with Sarah Curran. She was only 26 when she died, five years after Emmet, having been estranged from her...
- Ronan Mcgreevy
Feb 27, 2014 · Emmet, after fleeing to a safe house in the Wicklow mountains, was subsequently arrested, tried for treason and put to death along with 15 of his followers. Why would the young Emmet, a man of talent and ambition, have put his name to such an ignominious failure?
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A common observation about Robert Emmet is that he had a death-wish, that he was in thrall to blood sacrifice and the martyrdom complex. That version misunderstands the nature of his ethical dilemma.
