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Robert
Emmet
(1778-1803)
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James
Petrie sketch of the real Robert Emmet |
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"When
my country takes her place among the
nations of the earth, then, and not
until then, let my epitaph be
written." Robert Emmet
(from his Speech from the Dock, 1803) |
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on photo to enlarge) |
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| Emmet's
speech from the dock |
Emmet's
execution |
Emmet
stamp |
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Joseph
Haworth & Robert Emmet |
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Irish
born playwright and actor Dion
Boucicault plagiarized an earlier
version of a play based on the life of
Robert Emmet written by Frank A.
Marshall. Marshall's dramatization of
the Irish revolutionary was written for Sir Henry
Irving and scheduled to be performed
at the Lyceum Theatre, London in 1881.
The production was cancelled however,
due to the political situation in
Ireland at the time. Irving showed the
play to Boucicault who produced his
own version with Joseph Haworth in the
title role in Chicago in November
1884. |
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