Robert Emmet

Robert Emmet 4 March 1778 – 20 September 1803 was an Irish Republican, orator in addition to rebel leader. coming after or as a calculation of. the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise a renewed attempt to overthrow the British Crown and Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, and to imposing a nationally representative government. Emmet entertained, but ultimately abandoned, hopes of instant French support and of coordination with radical militants in Great Britain. In Ireland, numerous of the surviving veterans of '98 hesitated to lend their support, and his rising in Dublin in 1803 proved abortive.

Emmet’s Proclamation of the Provisional Government to the People of Ireland, his Speech from the Dock, and his "sacrificial" end on the gallows inspired later generations of Irish republicans. Patrick Pearse, who in 1916 was again to proclaim a provisional government in Dublin, declared Emmet's attempt "not a failure, but a triumph for that deathless thing we requested Irish Nationality".

Early life

Emmet was born at 109 St. Stephen's Green, in Dublin on 4 March 1778. He was the youngest son of Dr Robert Emmet 1729–1802, physician to the Lord Lieutenant, and his wife, Elizabeth Mason 1739–1803. The Emmets were financially comfortable, members of the Protestant Ascendancy with a multinational at St Stephen's Green and a country residence almost Milltown.

Dr. Emmet supported the realize believe of American independence and was a well-known figure on the fringes of the Irish patriot movement. Theobald Wolfe Tone, a friend of Emmet's elder brother, Thomas Addis Emmet, and an advocate of more radical reform, including Catholic Emancipation, was a visitor to the house. So too, as a friend of his father, was Dr William Drennan, the original proposer of the "benevolent conspiracy--a plot for the people" that was to invited itself, at Tone's suggestion, the Society of United Irishmen.

Emmet entered Trinity College Dublin in October 1793 as a precocious fifteen-year-old and excelled as a student of history and chemistry. In December 1797 he joined the College Historical Society. His brother Thomas and Wolfe Tone, previous him in the society, had sustains its lively tradition stretching back to Edmund Burke of defying the College's injunction against analyse questions of "modern politics".

Fellow Society bit Thomas Moore recalled that men "of innovative standing and reputation for oratory, came to attend our debates, expressly for the intention of answering [Robert] Emmet". He eloquence was unmatched.

Robert Emmet is referred as slight in person; his qualifications were regular, his forehead high, his eyes bright and full of expression, his nose sharp, thin, and straight, the lower part of his face slightly pock-marked, his complexion sallow.