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Robert Emmet : a life / Patrick M. Geoghegan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geoghegan, Patrick M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revolutionaries--Ireland--Biography.
- Revolutionaries.
- Ireland--History--Emmet's Rebellion, 1803.
- Ireland.
- Emmet, Robert, 1778-1803.
- Emmet, Robert.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Patrick Geoghegan re-examines the facts of Emmet's life and draws on new material from archives in Britain, France, the United States, and Ireland to show how Emmet's plans for rebellion, although undermined by internal disagreements, were much more ingenious than previously believed.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Emmet legend
- Introduction
- Sacrifice and Catharsis: 19–20 September 1803
- Romance Revisited: the Sarah Curran Story
- Conspiracies and connections
- The Life
- ‘An Irish Washington’: The Early Life of Robert Emmet
- Warfare and Technology: The Imagination of an Insurrection
- Return to Ireland
- Coup d’état and Bloody Protest: 23 July 1803
- The Pursuit of Robert Emmet
- Captivity and Cross-Examination
- The Trial of Robert Emmet
- The Appointed Time: Death and Reinvention
- The Temple and Emmet genealogy
- The Early Poetry of Robert Emmet
- Manifesto of the Provisional Government
- Abbreviations
- References
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- "Published simultaneously in Ireland by Gill & Macmillan Ltd"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-337) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86115-8
- 9786612861154
- 0-7735-7105-1
- OCLC:
- 243613821
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