See also:ROBERT See also:EMMET (1778-1803)
, Irish See also:rebel, youngest son of See also:Robert See also:Emmet, physician to the See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of See also:Ireland, was See also:born in See also:Dublin in 1778, and entered Trinity See also:College in See also:October 1793, where he had a distinguished See also:academic career, showing See also:special aptitude for See also:mathematics and See also:chemistry, and acquiring a reputation as an orator
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Without taking a degree he removed his name from the college books in See also:April 1798, as a protest against the inquisitorial examination of the See also:political views of the students conducted by Lord See also:Clare as See also:chancellor of the university
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Thus cut off from entering a learned profession, he turned towards political intrigue, being already to some extent in the secrets of the See also:United Irishmen, of whom his See also:elder See also:brother See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Addis Emmet (see below) was one of the most prominent
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In April 1799 a See also:warrant was issued for his See also:arrest, but was not executed; and in 1800 and the following See also:year he travelled on the See also:continent of See also:Europe, where he • entered into relations with the leaders of the United Irishmen, exiled since the See also:rebellion of 1798, who were planning a fresh outbreak in Ireland in expectation of support from See also:France
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Emmet went to See also:Paris in October 18o2, where he had an interview with See also:Bonaparte which convinced him that the See also:peace of See also:Amiens would be of See also:short duration and that a See also:French invasion of See also:England might be looked for in See also:August 1803
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The See also:councils of the conspirators were weakened by divided opinions as to the ultimate aim of their policy; and no clearly thought-out See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of operations appears to have been arrived at when Emmet See also:left Paris for Ireland in October 18o2
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Those in his confidence afterwards denied that Emmet was himself the originator of the See also:plan on which he acted; and several of the ablest of the United Irishmen held aloof, believing the project to be impracticable
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Among the latter waA Lord Cloncurry, at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time on the executive of the United Irishmen, with whom Emmet dined the See also:night before he left Paris, and to whom he spoke of his plans with intense See also:enthusiasm and excitement
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Emmet's lack of discretion was shown by his revealing his intentions in detail to an Englishman named See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence, See also:resident near See also:Honfleur, with whom he sought shelter when travelling on See also:foot on his way to Ireland
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Arriving in Dublin at the end of October he received See also:information to the effect that seventeen counties were ready to take up arms if a successful effort were made in Dublin
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For some time he remained concealed in his See also:father's See also:house near Miltown, making his preparations
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A large number of pikes were collected and stored in Dublin during the See also:spring of 1803, but See also:fire-arms and See also:ammunition were not plentiful
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The See also:probability of a French invasion in August was increased by the renewal of the See also:war in May, Emmet's brother Thomas being then in Paris in communication with Talleyrand and Bonaparte
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But 'a See also:discovery by the See also:government of concealed
arms, and an See also:explosion at one of Emmet's dep6ts in See also:Patrick See also:Street on the 16th of See also:July, necessitated immediate See also:action, and the 23rd of that See also:month was accordingly fixed for the projected rising
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An elaborate plan of operations, which he described in detail in a See also:letter to his brother after his arrest, had been prepared by Emmet, the leading feature of which was a simultaneous attack on the See also:castle, the See also:Pigeon House and the See also:artillery See also:barracks at See also:Island See also:bridge; while bodies of insurgents from the neighbouring counties were to See also:march on the See also:capital
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But the whole scheme miscarried
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Some of Emmet's bolder proposals, such as a plan for capturing the See also:commander-in-See also:chief, were vetoed by the timidity of his associates, none of whom were men of any ability
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On the 23rd of July all was confusion at the depots, and the leaders were divided as to the course to be pursued; orders were not obeyed; a trusted messenger despatched for arms absconded with the See also:money committed to him to pay for them; treachery, quite unsuspected by Emmet, honeycombed the See also:conspiracy; the See also:Wicklow contingent failed to appear; the See also:Kildare men turned back on See also:hearing that the rising had been postponed; a See also:signal expected by a contingent at the Broadstone was never given
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In this hopeless See also:state of affairs a false See also:report reached Emmet at one of his dep6ts at nine o'See also:clock in the evening that the military were approaching
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Without taking any step to verify it, Emmet put on a See also:green and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:uniform and placed himself at the See also:head of some eighty men, who marched towards the castle, being joined in the streets by a second See also:body of about equal strength
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None of these insurgents had any discipline, and many of them were drunk
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Lord Kilwarden, proceeding to a hastily summoned See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the privy See also:council, was dragged from his See also:carriage by this See also:rabble and murdered, together with his See also:nephew See also:Richard See also:Wolfe; his daughter who accompanied him being conveyed to safety by Emmet himself
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Emmet, now seeing that the rising had become a See also:mere street brawl, made his See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape; a detachment of soldiers quickly dispersed his followers
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After hiding for some days in the Wicklow mountains Emmet repaired to the house of a Mrs See also:Palmer at Harold's See also:Cross, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to be near the See also:residence of See also:John Philpot See also:Curran (q.v.), to whose daughter Sarah he had for some time been secretly attached, and with whom he had carried on a voluminous See also:correspondence, afterwards seized by the authorities at her father's house
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Attempting without success to persuade this See also:lady to See also:fly with him to See also:America, Emmet lingered in the neighbourhood till the 25th of August, when he was apprehended by See also:Major H
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C
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Sirr, the same officer who had captured Lord See also:Edward See also:Fitzgerald in 1798
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At his trial he was defended and betrayed by the infamous Leonard MacNally (q.v.), and was convicted of See also:treason; and after delivering an eloquent speech from the See also:dock, was hanged on the loth of See also:September 1803
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By the universal testimony of his See also:friends, Robert Emmet was a youth of modest See also:character, pure motives and winning See also:personality
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But he was entirely lacking in See also:practical statesmanship
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Brought up in a revolutionary See also:atmosphere, his enthusiasm was uncontrolled by See also:judgment
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Thomas See also:Moore, who warmly eulogizes Emmet, with whom he was a student at Trinity College, records that one See also:day when he was playing on the piano the See also:melody " Let See also:Erin remember," Emmet started up exclaiming passionately, " Oh, that I were at the head of 20,000 men marching to that See also:air!" He had no knowledge of the See also:world or of men; he trusted every one with See also:child-like simplicity; except See also:personal courage he had none of the qualities essential to See also:leader-See also:ship in such an enterprise as armed rebellion
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The See also:romance of his love affair with Sarah Curran—who afterwards married Robert See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Sturgeon, an officer distinguished in the See also:Peninsular War—has See also:cast a glamour over the memory of Robert Emmet; and it inspired Thomas Moore's well-known songs, " She is far from the See also:land where her See also:young See also:hero sleeps," and " Oh, breathe not his name"; it is also the subject of See also:Washington See also:Irving's " The Broken See also:Heart." Emmet was short and slight in figure; his See also:face was marked by smallpox, and he was described in 1803 for the purpose of See also:identification as being " of an ugly, sour countenance and dirty See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown complexion." A few poems by Emmet of little merit are appended to See also:Madden's See also:biography
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See R
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Madden, The United Irishmen, their Lives and Times (2nd ed
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4 vols., Dublin, 1858–186o) ; See also:Charles See also:Phillips, Recollections of Curran and Some of his Contemporaries (2nd ed., See also:London, 1822); Henry
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See also:Grattan, See also:Memoirs of the See also:Life and Times of the Right Hon
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H
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Grattan (5 vols., London, 1839–1846) ; W
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H
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See also:Maxwell, See also:History of the Irish Rebellion in 7798; with Memoirs of the See also:Union and Emmet's Insurrection in 7803 (London, 1845) ; W
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H
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Curran, Life of J
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Curran (2 vols., See also:Edinburgh, 1822) ; Thomas Moore, Life and See also:Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald (2 vols
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3rd ed., London, 1832) ; and Memoirs, See also:Journals and Correspondence of Thomas Moore, edited by Lord John See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell (8 vols., London, 1853–1856)
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