Robert Emmet : a life
"Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was one of the most romantic of all Irish revolutionaries. His doomed relationship with Sarah Curran, his failed rebellion at the age of twenty-five and the brilliance of his speech from the dock, captured the popular imagination and created a powerful and enduring legend. W.B. Yeats declared that Emmet was the leading saint of Irish Nationalism." "This book reveals for the first time the complex and ingenious plans that Emmet devised for the rebellion. His youthful idealism and military talent proved insufficient, however, and his attempt to seize Dublin on 23 July 1803 was a dramatic failure. Captured soon after, Emmet won an unlikely victory with his extraordinary speech from the dock that is rightly considered to be one of the greatest courtroom orations in history. He died bravely on the scaffold the next day."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
eBook, English, ©2002
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal [Que.], ©2002
Electronic books
1 online resource (xvii, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
9780773571051, 9780773525429, 9781282861152, 9786612861154, 0773571051, 0773525424, 1282861158, 6612861150
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Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Emmet legend
Part I: Introduction
1. Sacrifice and catharsis: 19�20 September 1803
2. Romance revisited: the Sarah Curran story
3. Conspiracies and connections
Part II: The life
4. 'An Irish Washington': the early life of Robert Emmet
5. Warfare and technology: the imagination of an insurrection
6. Return to Ireland
7. Coup d'état and bloody protest: 23 July 1803
8. The pursuit of Robert Emmet
9. Captivity and cross-examination 10. The trial of Robert Emmet11. The appointed time: death and reinvention
Appendix A: The Temple and Emmet genealogy
Appendix B: The early poetry of Robert Emmet
Appendix C: Manifesto of the provisional government
Abbreviations
References
Bibliography
Index
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