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Robert Emmet : a life /
"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 leg...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Emmet legend
- Part I: Introduction
- 1. Sacrifice and catharsis: 19�20 September 1803
- 2. Romance revisited: the Sarah Curran story
- 3. Conspiracies and connections
- Part II: The life
- 4. 'An Irish Washington': the early life of Robert Emmet
- 5. Warfare and technology: the imagination of an insurrection
- 6. Return to Ireland
- 7. Coup d'état and bloody protest: 23 July 1803
- 8. The pursuit of Robert Emmet
- 9. Captivity and cross-examination
- 10. The trial of Robert Emmet11. The appointed time: death and reinvention
- Appendix A: The Temple and Emmet genealogy
- Appendix B: The early poetry of Robert Emmet
- Appendix C: Manifesto of the provisional government
- Abbreviations
- References
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
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