Author: Richard Robert MaddenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nationalists
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Life and Times of Robert Emmet, Esq
Author: Richard Robert MaddenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nationalists
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Life and Times of Robert Emmet, Esq
Author: Richard Robert MaddenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Life and Times of Robert Emmet, Esq
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780461571479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times
Author: Richard Robert MaddenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Life, Trial and Conversations of Robert Emmet, Esq. .. Also, the Celebrated Speech Made by Him on that Occasion. [With a Portrait.]
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Author: Robert EMMETRobert Emmet: His Birth-place and Burial
Author: David A. QuaidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Revolutionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Life and Times of Robert Emmet, Esq
Author: Richard Robert MaddenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Regency Spies
Author: Sue WilkesPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 147387839X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Sue Wilkes reveals the shadowy world of Britain's spies, rebels and secret societies from the late 1780s until 1820. Drawing on contemporary literature and official records, Wilkes unmasks the real conspirators and tells the tragic stories of the unwitting victims sent to the gallows. In this 'age of Revolutions', when the French fought for liberty, Britain's upper classes feared revolution was imminent. Thomas Paine's incendiary Rights of Man called men to overthrow governments which did not safeguard their rights. Were Jacobins and Radical reformers in England and Scotland secretly plotting rebellion? Ireland, too, was a seething cauldron of unrest, its impoverished people oppressed by their Protestant masters. Britain's governing elite could not rely on the armed services even Royal Navy crews mutinied over brutal conditions. To keep the nation safe, a 'war chest' of secret service money funded a network of spies to uncover potential rebels amongst the underprivileged masses. It had some famous successes: dashing Colonel Despard, friend of Lord Nelson, was executed for treason. Sometimes in the deadly game of cat-and-mouse between spies and their prey, suspicion fell on the wrong men, like poets Wordsworth and Coleridge. Even peaceful reformers risked arrest for sedition. Political meetings like Manchester's 'Peterloo' were ruthlessly suppressed, and innocent blood spilt. Repression bred resentment and a diabolical plot was born. The stakes were incredibly high: rebels suffered the horrors of a traitor's death when found guilty. Some conspirators' secrets died with them on the scaffold... The spy network had some famous successes, like the discoveries of the Despard plot, the Pentrich Rising and the Cato St conspiracy. It had some notable failures, too. However, sometimes the 'war on terror' descended into high farce, like the 'Spy Nozy' affair, in which poets Wordsworth and Coleridge were shadowed by a special agent.
Robert Emmet
Author: Patrick M. GeogheganPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773525429
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
"Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was one of the most romantic of all Irish revolutionaries. His doomed relationship with Sarah Curran, his failed rebellion at the age of twenty-five and the brilliance of his speech from the dock, captured the popular imagination and created a powerful and enduring legend. W.B. Yeats declared that Emmet was the leading saint of Irish Nationalism." "This book reveals for the first time the complex and ingenious plans that Emmet devised for the rebellion. His youthful idealism and military talent proved insufficient, however, and his attempt to seize Dublin on 23 July 1803 was a dramatic failure. Captured soon after, Emmet won an unlikely victory with his extraordinary speech from the dock that is rightly considered to be one of the greatest courtroom orations in history. He died bravely on the scaffold the next day."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Sacred and Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914
Author: John WolffePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350019267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
During and immediately after the First World War, there was a merging of Christian and nationalist traditions of martyrdom, expressed in the design of war cemeteries and war memorials, and the state funeral of the Unknown Warrior in 1920. John Wolffe explores the subsequent development of these traditions of 'sacred' and 'secular' martyrdom, analysing the ways in which they operated - sometimes in parallel, sometimes merged together and sometimes in conflict with each other. Particular topics explored include the Protestant commemoration of Marian and missionary martyrs, and the Roman Catholic campaign for the canonization of the 'saints and martyrs of England'. Secular martyrdom is discussed in relation to military conflicts especially the Second World War and the Falklands. In Ireland there was a particularly persistent merging of sacred and secular martyrdom in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916 although by the time of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' in the later twentieth-century these traditions diverged. In covering these themes, the book also offers historical and comparative context for understanding present-day acts of martyrdom in the form of suicide attacks.