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Rugadh Robert Emmet ar an 4ú Márta 1778 i mBaile Átha Cliath.
Robert Emmet was born on 4th March 1778 in Dublin. 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. 1/2
Emmet’s Proclamation of the Provisional Government to the People of Ireland, his Speech from the Dock, and his sacrificial end on the gallows inspired later generations of Irish republicans. Patrick Pearse, who in 1916 was again to proclaim a provisional government in Dublin, declared Emmet's attempt "not a failure, but a triumph for that deathless thing we call Irish Nationality". 2/2