- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd; illustrated edition edition (October 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0717133877
- ISBN-13: 978-0717133871
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.8 x 3.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 721 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was one of the most romantic of all Irish revolutionaries. He was the youngest son of Ireland's state physician and was educated privately at Trinity College Dublin. Like many young people in the early 1790s, he was caught up in the fervour of the French Revolution. In the revolutionary year of 1798, when three different insurrections broke out in Ireland, he was expelled from Trinity College, thus ending his prospects of a professional career. He went to the Continent where he met both Napoleon and Talleyrand and returned to Dublin where he organised and led the doomed insurrection of May 1803. No foreign help came. There were probably spies in the camp, and Emmet's rising was quickly crushed. He was tried and executed, but not before making a speech from the dock which has resonated through subsequent Irish history. Romantic, impulsive and doomed: Emmet is one of the tragic heroes of the Irish past.
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Dr Patrick Geoghegan is the author of The Irish Act of Union. He is a lecturer in the Department of Modern History in Trinity College Dublin and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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A superb work of scholarship,
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Robert Emmet: A Life by Patrick M. Geoghegan (Lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) is an involving and detailed biography of the greatly romanticized Irish revolutionary. Robert Emmet's short life, passionate yet doomed love for Sarah Curran, his daring rebellion for Irish independence against the British, and his subsequent execution in 1803 formed the bases of both history and legend, leading W. B. Yeats to declare him the leading saint of Irish nationalism. A dramatic, detailed, and fascinating life story, Robert Emmet: A Life is a superb work of scholarship and an enthusiastically recommended contribution to Irish History.
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A superb work of scholarship,
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This review is from: Robert Emmet: A Life (Hardcover)
Robert Emmet: A Life by Patrick M. Geoghegan (Lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) is an involving and detailed biography of the greatly romanticized Irish revolutionary. Robert Emmet's short life, passionate yet doomed love for Sarah Curran, his daring rebellion for Irish independence against the British, and his subsequent execution in 1803 formed the bases of both history and legend, leading W. B. Yeats to declare him the leading saint of Irish nationalism. A dramatic, detailed, and fascinating life story, Robert Emmet: A Life is a superb work of scholarship and an enthusiastically recommended contribution to Irish History.
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