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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.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Emmet, Robert (1778–1803), United Irishman, was born 4 March 1778 at 109/110 St Stephen's Green, Dublin, the seventeenth, but only fourth surviving child of Dr Robert Emmet (qv), the state physician, and Elizabeth Emmet (née Mason); his older brothers were Christopher Temple (qv) and Thomas Addis Emmet (qv) and his sister was Mary Anne ...
- Date of Rebellion
- Death of Lord Kilwarden
- Suppression Emmet’s of Rebellion
- Capture
He now fixed upon Saturday 23rd July for carrying his schemes into execution. The morning of that day found him and his companions divided in their plans. Consultations were held at the depot in Thomas-street, at Long’s in Crow-street, and Allen’s in College-green. The Wicklow men under Dwyerhad not come in; the Kildare men came in, but dispersed a...
The stragglers in the rear soon perpetrated acts of pillage and assassination—Lord Kilwarden, a humane and popular judge (hastening to a Privy Council at the Castle), was dragged out of his coach and murdered. News of these proceedings reached Emmet, and he hastened back in horror; but the mob were beyond control, and conscious at last that all was...
In less than an hour the rout of Emmet’s party was complete. Troops were now poured into Dublin, within a few hours martial-law was proclaimed, and the executions and the reign of terror that followed 1798 recommenced. Meanwhile his friend Russellhad as completely failed in his efforts to rouse an insurrection in the north of Ireland. The father of...
His hiding-place was not discovered until 25th August, when he was arrested by Major Sirr, about seven o’clock in the evening. We are yet unacquainted with the name of his betrayer—to whom £1,000 was paid over on 1st November ensuing. Emmet was at once taken to the Castle, and thence removed to Kilmainham. Vigorous but ineffectual efforts were made...
- Alfred Webb
Sep 20, 2024 · Robert Emmet was executed on September 20, 1803, following a one-day trial the day before on a charge of high treason against the king. As charges went in the Ireland of the day, this was ...
May 14, 2018 · The Irish nationalist Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was executed after leading an unsuccessful revolution against British rule. His youth, passionate oratory, and courage in the face of death have made him a permanent symbol of romantic, revolutionary, Irish nationalism.
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Emmet, Robert (1729–1802), state physician, was born 29 November 1729 at Tipperary, younger of two sons of Christopher Emett, physician, and Rebecca Emett (née Temple); his mother was a descendant of the powerful Temple political dynasty based at Stowe, Buckinghamshire.
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