Biography of Robert Emmet

1778
20 September 1803
It is an Ireland torn by Penal Lows-introduced by James II, Prince of Orange in the second half of the 17th century--and pervaded by a widespread and ever domo revolutionary spirit that welcomes the small Robert Emmet, who came into the world on March 4 of 1778, in Clonakilty, County Cork, in the far south of the island. It is an Ireland dispossessed of his property, in which the vast majority of landowners is English, and more than half of the farmers live in inhuman conditions struggling between hunger and disease; the reigning sovereign, George III, promotes the island Dominion of Protestants until, in 1800, the Irish Parliament was abolished by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Robert Emmet grows so nourishing of patriotic feelings and antibritannici, and it soon begins to deal with notable oratory skills and charismatic manifesting policy. In 1798 he was expelled from the college where he studied for joining and becoming Secretary of the society of United Irishmen (Society of United Irishmen), an organization of revolutionary and Republican proponent of semi-clandestine Catholic Emancipation and independence of Ireland. But the French and American revolutions wind blows strong now, and Irish nationalists are invested in full.
In the spring of the following year, followed by an arrest warrant, repairs to Paris where, three years later, unable to meet Napoleon and Talleyrand that make part of the project of an imminent invasion of England. Back in Dublin in late 1802 and begins to organize the insurgency along the French attack. During the preparations, however, realizes that the insurgency movement you go weakening: the accidental explosion of a bomb in one of the clandestine arms deposits is the element that causes it to not wait further anticipating the date of the uprising without waiting for France. But the company is disastrous enough to be remembered as a "little rebellion".
The uprisings were fired on 23 July 1803, cause the death of Viceroy lord Arthur Wolfe Kilwarden and his nephew. But during the night the Government forces manage to quell the rebellion by dispersing the now few and disheartened the rebels. Emmet has only 25 years, and probably the impulsiveness of youth contributes to the failure of the revolt; But companies making are certainly worthy of more seasoned men of action. Captured, goes on trial and sentenced to death on 19 September. Immediately after the reading of the sentence, Robert Emmet took the floor and pronounce a fierce and moving speech which will remain engraved in Republican history of Ireland. Those were his last words: "men don't write my epitaph ... until another time and other men cannot do justice to my character. When my country has taken its place among the Nations of the Earth, then and only then, write my epitaph. " On 20 September 1803, in Thomas Street, Dublin, Robert Emmet is hanged and then beheaded. His heart-rending life belongs also the poignant love story, all by mail with Sarah Curran, also died young of tuberculosis two years after Emmet. The story of Robert and Sarah inspired, over the years, poets, writers and directors.
Article contributed by the team of collaborators.