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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.
From an early age Emmet was encouraged by his father to love the principles of liberty and freedom as represented by the American war of independence, and his ambition was to become an Irish George Washington and lead a similar revolution.
Shortly after 1 o’clock on 20 September 1803, he was executed publicly in front of St Catherine’s Church, Thomas Street, Dublin. Emmet wore a plain black coat, black velvet stock, and Hessian boots, which gave him the classic appearance of the gentleman revolutionary.
Feb 27, 2014 · In 1803 in Dublin, Robert Emmet and a small band of republican revolutionaries proclaimed the independence of Ireland. After a haphazard rebellion, that turned out to be little more than a calamitous, bloody riot on Dublin’s Thomas Street, his hopes lay in ruins.
Robert Emmet obtained an interview with that great man, and learned from him that it was his settled purpose, on the breaking out of hostilities, which could not long be deferred, to effect an invasion of England.
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.
The biographical entry for Robert Emmet, including an account of his failed rebellion in Dublin in 1803, from 'A Compendium of Irish Biography', by Alfred Webb, 1878.
In the summer of 1800, McCabe was joined in Paris by Robert Emmet (younger brother of the Dublin society co-founder, Thomas Addis Emmet) and by Malachy Delaney (a veteran of Austrian military service). [4]
