FitzGerald, Lord Edward
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FitzGerald, Lord Edward (1763–98), radical. A younger son of the 1st duke of Leinster, FitzGerald served in the British forces in North America during the
American Revolution. He later became an admirer of the
French Revolution and was dismissed from the army for a toast to the abolition of hereditary titles. He joined the
United Irishmen in 1796 and was one of the militants in the debates on strategy during 1797–8. His arrest on 19 May, during which he was mortally wounded, deprived the
insurrection of 1798 of a key figure. His wife Pamela had been brought up in the household of the radical French nobleman the duc d'Orléans, and was widely believed to be his illegitimate daughter.
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Fitzgerald: A citizen who refused to lord it over natives
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 8/10/1997; ; 503 words
; CITIZEN LORD: Edward Fitzgerald, 1763-1798, by Stella Tillyard, Chatto & Windus, $45. Reviewed by IAIN SHARP THE LIFE of Lord Edward Fitzgerald was wildly romantic. Born into the Irish aristocracy in 1763...
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How net closed on Lord Edward; Two hundred years ago today, Irish history was on the brink of revolution. The uprising had originally been planned to start on May 21, 1798, but in the event it was another two days before the first shots were fired. News Letter reporter STEVEN MOORE, in the first of a series of articles marking the rebellion, looks at its origins.High ideals buried in butchery.(News)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 5/21/1998; 682 words
; ...before, in March of that year, Lord Edward Fitzgerald had managed to escape when the...officer was fatally wounded while Fitzgerald himself was slightly wounded...property of the lower classes. Fitzgerald had renounced his title and...
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The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron & Thomas Moore.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron & Thomas Moore. By...work, the Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of his Life...patriot' opposition. The case of Lord Edward Fitzgerald may illustrate the point. Doubtless...
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Naseby's pioneering archaeologist: spurred into action by the false presumptions of Thomas Carlyle, the antiquarian Edward FitzGerald sought to piece together the momentous events of June 14th, 1645.
Magazine article from: History Today; 4/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edward FitzGerald, best known as the translator of the Rubaiyat...the beneficiary of the pioneering work of one Edward FitzGerald, the son of the lord of the manor of the small Northamptonshire...
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Law lords defy US on extradition
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/30/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...lawyers had told the Lords that treaty obligations...politicians, including Lord Scarman, the former Law Lord, Tony Blair and Paddy...went to the House of Lords to seek leave to appeal...The Lords disagreed. Edward Fitzgerald, QC, one of the country...
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First Citizen
Newspaper article from: Irish Voice; 10/27/1998; 700+ words
; ...First Citizen Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward Fitzgerald By Stella Tillyard...Rising of 1798, Lord Edward Fitzgerald remains...and leave Ireland? Lord Edward thought so. When...French intervention, Fitzgerald began to accept the...
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Books: The high-society terror 2ist John Adamson assesses the eventful life of the aristocrat who tried to export the French Revolution to Ireland
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/27/1997; ; 700+ words
; Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald, 1763-1798 by Stella Tillyard Chatto & Windus, pounds 16...however, few were more sweet or better intentioned than Lord Edward Fitzgerald: the architect of the 1798 Irish Rebellion against English rule...
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Snoblesse oblige
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/3/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...s new biography of Lord Edward Fitzgerald acquaints us with a...Was it . . . for this Edward Fitzgerald died" sneered...the battlefield where Lord Edward had been wounded serving...Harriet Beecher Stowe. Fitzgerald's own children were...
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A hero more of our time than his own
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/31/1997; ; 700+ words
; CITIZEN LORD: EDWARD FITZGERALD, 1763-1798 by Stella Tillyard Chatto, L16.99, pp.335...says Stella Tillyard in her biography of the 12th of them, Edward Fitzgerald, the Irish patriot, republican, cofounder of the Society of...
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All the World's a Stage
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/17/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...took as a lover a handsome Irish lord, Edward Fitzgerald, had a child by him and died...resemblance to the lost Eliza. Lord Edward won her hand, while Sheridan...was the charismatic Lord Edward Fitzgerald, his dead wife's former lover...
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Lord Edward Fitzgerald
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lord Edward Fitzgerald 1763-98, Irish revolutionary; son of James Fitzgerald, 20th earl of Kildare and 1st duke...and the Irish House of Commons, Lord Edward, attracted by the French Revolution...
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Fitzgerald, Lord Edward
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Fitzgerald, Lord Edward (1763–98). Irish patriot. Fitzgerald was born into one of the wealthiest and most esteemed families of the Irish aristocracy: his father was James, 1st duke of Leinster. He was MP for Athy in the Irish...
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FitzGerald, Lord Edward
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
FitzGerald, Lord Edward (1763–98), radical. A younger son of the 1st duke of Leinster, FitzGerald served in the British forces in North America during the American...
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United Irishmen, Society of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...of repression moved to the counties round Dublin. Lord Edward FitzGerald , Arthur O'Connor , and other United Irish leaders...members of the Leinster Directory on 12 March allowed Lord Edward, the Sheares brothers, and Neilson to frame plans...
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Light, John
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...Daniel, Cold Lazarus, Bravo, BBC1, and Channel 4, 1996. Major Wethersby, The Unknown Soldier, PBS, 1998. Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Aristocrats, BBC1 and PBS, 1999. Lieutenant Colonel Dobie, Band of Brothers, HBO, 2001. James Jesus Angleton...
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