Robert Emmet was the leader of the doomed July 1803 rebellion. After a rapidly convened trial he was executed for treason by the British government in September 1803. He quickly became a legend, fuelled by his speech from the dock after the judge pronounced sentence, his doomed romance with Sarah Curran (whose father, a Patriot advocate, had refused to help Emmet), the moving scenes from his last night in prison, and his courage and defiance at the scaffold. His speech, 'When my country takes her place among the nations of ...
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Robert Emmet was the leader of the doomed July 1803 rebellion. After a rapidly convened trial he was executed for treason by the British government in September 1803. He quickly became a legend, fuelled by his speech from the dock after the judge pronounced sentence, his doomed romance with Sarah Curran (whose father, a Patriot advocate, had refused to help Emmet), the moving scenes from his last night in prison, and his courage and defiance at the scaffold. His speech, 'When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and only then may my epitaph be written' is among the great cri de coeurs of the republicans movement and was the romantic inspiration for the 'blood and honour' legend that built up around him. This coloured the whole course of the fight for Irish nationalism. Two hundred years from his death, many nationalists can still recite by heart his famous death oration. Because he never had a formal burial there has been a 200-year obsession with where his body might be buried.
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