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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.
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.
Sep 20, 2023 · 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 ...
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 ...
Their ‘Robert Emmet uniform’—green, lots of brocade, peacock-feathered hat—was endlessly sent up by Seán O’Casey in the 1920s but was prevalent in the plays and melodramas of the nineteenth century as the quintessence of Irish masculinity.
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.
Feb 27, 2014 · Maeve Casserly examines the thinking of Robert Emmet, architect of the 1803 rebellion. In 1803 in Dublin, Robert Emmet and a small band of republican revolutionaries proclaimed the independence of Ireland.
