politician
Robert Emmet.
Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader (1780-1803)
The journal
Open the journal →The conversation starts in the journal — be the first to post.
About Robert Emmet
Robert Emmet 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 in Ireland to overthrow the British Crown and Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, and to break the recently enforced union with Great Britain. Emmet entertained, but ultimately abandoned, hopes of immediate French assistance and of coordination with radical militants in Great Britain. In Ireland, many of the surviving veterans of '98 hesitated to lend their support, and his rising in Dublin in 1803 proved abortive.
Everything about Robert Emmet →- Occupation
- politician
- Citizenship
- Ireland
- Born
- March 4, 1780
- Died
- September 20, 1803