Robert Emmet : a life

Robert Emmet : a life / Patrick M. Geoghegan.

"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 leg...

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Main Author: Geoghegan, Patrick M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Emmet, Robert, > 1778-1803.
Emmet, Robert, > 1778-1803
1803
Revolutionaries > Ireland > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Europe > Ireland.
Revolutionaries
Ireland > History > Emmet's Rebellion, 1803.
Ireland
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • The Emmet legend
  • Part I: Introduction
  • 1. Sacrifice and catharsis: 19â€?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
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y

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