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Robert Emmet: The Making of a Legend.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Robert Emmet: The Making of a Legend. Marianne Elliott. Profile Books. [pounds sterling]20.00. xii + 292 pages. ISBN 1-86197-643-7. Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was the leader of an unsuccessful rebellion against British rule who perished on the scaffold. (Like so many Irish nationalists he was a Protestant and Anglo-Irish.) He was, in the author's words the perfect hero for Irish nationalists: 'the most iconic of Ireland's many national icons, his youthfulness, good breeding, tragic romance, untimely and dramatic end and memorable trial speech forming a narrative of noble victim against the foul oppressor'. The myth has clouded our understanding of the man and his 'real talents'. …
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Source: HighBeam Research, Robert Emmet: The Making of a Legend.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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