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Memoir of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet : with their ancestors and immediate family

Thomas Addis Emmet (1764-1827) and his brother, Robert Emmet (1778-1803) were both Irish nationalists and rebels against the English govern- ment in Ireland. Officially they were members of the Society of United Irishmen. When their father died in 1803, Thomas Addis Emmet was already in exile in Europe and never returned to Ireland. Robert Emmet was executed for helping create a fire and explosion in Dublin which led to the death of some building occupants. Thomas Addis Emmet had begun his rebellion against the establishment as part of the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution. After his brother's execution, Thomas Addis Emmet immigrated from Paris to Washington, D.C., and then settled in New York City. Includes some family history, chiefly of ancestors and relatives. Contains many of the historical essays of Thomas Addis Emmet, in connection with Ireland.

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