Let no man write my epitaph… When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.
About Robert Emmet
Robert Emmetwas an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. Following the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise a renewed attempt to overthrow the British Crown and Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, and to establish a nationally representative government.
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A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.
Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader (1780-1803)
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader (1780-1803)
I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.
Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader (1780-1803)
Let no man write my epitaph… When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.
Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader (1780-1803)