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Robert Emmet was an Irish nationalist born on March 4, 1778, and died on September 20, 1803. He is known for his significant role in the Irish independence movement.

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“Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.”

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Book:Irish Eloquence: The Speeches of the Celebrated Irish Orators: Phillips, Curran and Grattan, to which is Added the Powerful Appeal of Robert Emmett, at the Close of His Trial for High Treason

Source: Irish Eloquence: The Speeches of the Celebrated Irish Orators: Phillips, Curran and Grattan, to which is Added the Powerful Appeal of Robert Emmett, at the Close of His Trial for High Treason

“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.”

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Book:Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan

Source: Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan