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About James Hope
James "Jemmy" Hope was a radical democrat in Ireland who organised among labourers, tradesmen and tenant farmers for the Society of the United Irishmen. In the Rebellion of 1798 he fought alongside Henry Joy McCracken at the Battle of Antrim. In 1803 he attempted to renew the insurrection against the British Crown in an uprising coordinated by Robert Emmett and the new republican directorate in Dublin. Among United Irishmen, Hope was distinguished by his conviction that "the fundamental question at issue between the rulers and the people" was "the condition of the labouring class".
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- August 25, 1764
- Died
- February 10, 1847, March 18, 1860