The self-made martyr Jenny McCartney assesses a Life of Robert Emmet, the Irish revolutionary whose gaze was fixed on posterity

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: October 5, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Robert Emmet: The Making of a Legend

by Marianne Elliott

Profile, pounds 20, 320 pp

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ROBERT EMMET was the youthful, blushing United Irishman who led the abortive 1803 rebellion against the British. It was a minor military shambles. Had the British allowed him to live thereafter, he might have made a footnote in history, but his trial and execution instead emblazoned his name across the world. Emmet's fate, fermented into legend, became one of the sustaining myths of Irish republicanism.

The author of this book, Marianne Elliott, approaches her subject ...

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