Emmet

Robert, an Irish patriot; born in Cork in 1780. He was expelled from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1798, on the ground of exciting disaffection and rebellion, and having become an object of suspicion to the government, quitted Ireland. He returned there on the repeal of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, and became a member of the Society of United Irish men for the establishment of the independence of Ireland. In July, 1803, he was the ringleader in the rebellion in which Lord Kilwarden and others perished. He was arrested a few days afterward, tried, and exeeuted. His fate excited special interest from his attachment to Mi Sarah Curran, daughter of the celebrated barrister.