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Helen Landreth's book tells how Emmet, warmly assisted by the English secret service, realized this dream of glory. The Pursuit of Robert Emmet is an exhaustive account of the events leading to the Irish insurrection of 1803, which Emmet led and in which he died...
Many of the accounts of Emmet's life have been lost; others have only recently turned up. What the records show seems chiefly pathetic to readers schooled in the calculating and brilliant revolutionary techniques of Marx and Lenin. Unlike those men, Robert Emmet lived, from boyhood to scaffold, in a world of chivalrous, humanitarian dreams-a lovable but fatal hallucination which Author Landreth indignantly blames on Emmet's father, a conventional Protestant doctor of English extraction who didn't let little Robert air his views when grownups were conversing. After several years at Dublin's Trinity...
...Eyes Are Still Raised." He joined the Executive Committee of the United Irishmen when their ablest leaders were in prison or exile. Like the American revolutionaries, Emmet and his fellows pinned bright hopes on French military assistance. The British government, fully alert to this threat, had spies planted even in the top drawers of the French War Department...
...Emmet canvassed in Ireland, and Paris for support of a new insurrection, his every move was reported to Whitehall, and many a suave Irish host scurried from the dinner table, after entertaining Emmet, to report the latest items of treasonable talk. On the rare occasions when Emmet suspected that he was being double-crossed, he was not very worried. He wrote: "If a precipice is opening under my feet from which duty will not suffer me to run back, I am thankful for that sanguine disposition which leads me to the brink and throws me down, while my eyes...
Agents & Bottle-Bombs. The authorities, eager to make a big catch, were happy to let Emmet's hopes and fancies grow into a substantial capital offense. As his plans went forward and his workmen turned out an arsenal of pikes, bottle-bombs, grenades and scaling ladders, informers peeped in at the windows of the "secret" depots, or eavesdropped on the excited workmen when they retired to the pubs. Soon the authorities knew that Emmet's hopes were not confined to Dublin alone, that he had been promised support from all parts of Ireland-undependable promises which his "sanguine...