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Há 4 dias · Lord Edward Fitzgerald (born Oct. 15, 1763, County Kildare, Ire.—died June 4, 1798, London, Eng.) was an Irish rebel renowned for his gallantry and courage. He was a leading conspirator behind the uprising of 1798 against British rule in Ireland.
- Robert Emmet
Robert Emmet (born 1778, Dublin—died Sept. 20, 1803, Dublin)...
- Robert Emmet
24 de mai. de 2024 · Footnote 56 We have seen that Moore invoked Edel’s principle to justify his own practice as a biographer, claiming that Byron was long because Byron was ‘multiform’, while Fitzgerald was concise because of Fitzgerald’s ‘simplicity’.
24 de mai. de 2024 · Moore’s lifelong espousal of the Catholic cause led him to produce such brilliant works as his parody of agrarian insurgency, The Memoirs of Captain Rock (1824), and his courageous biography of the revolutionary leader of the 1798 rebellion, The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1831).
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23 de mai. de 2024 · But, in Ireland the first public rehabilitation (preceding Madden's monumental The United Irishmen, their lives and times) came in 1831 with The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1831), described by the author, Ireland's national bard, Thomas Moore as a "justification of the men of '98 – the ultimi Romanorum of our country".
16 de mai. de 2024 · ‘Yes, indeed I do; and Lord Byron and Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and Lord Edward Fitzgerald are the four best men that ever lived.’ ( TA , 370.) See also: Karen Sevareid, ‘The Byronic Woman’
Há 6 dias · Later, in a biography of the United Irish leader Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1831), he made clear his sympathies, not hiding his regret that the French expedition under General Hoche failed in December 1796 to effect a landing.
14 de mai. de 2024 · May 1798 Arrest and death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Rebellion in Midlands. June 1798 Rebellion in Wexford. Defeat of the United Irishmen at the Battle of Vinegar Hill. 19 November 1798 Death of Wolfe Tone. 1800 The Act of Union passed (to take effect from 1 January 1801). 1801
