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Robert Emmet : A Life by Patrick M. Geoghegan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was one Ireland's most romantic revolutionaries. The youngest son of Ireland's state physician, he was educated privately at Trinity College Dublin and, like many young people, was caught up in the fervour of the French Revolution. Expelled from Trinity in 1798 after involvement in insurrections in Ireland, he left for the Continent, where he met both Napoleon and Talleyrand. On his return to Dublin he organised and led the doomed insurrection of May 1803. Undone by lack of foreign help and probable betrayal by spies, Emmet was tried and executed, but not before making a speech from the dock which has resonated through subsequent Irish history.

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Author

Patrick M. Geoghegan

Publisher

ACP - McGill Queen's University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780773571051

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography