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BESIDE A BLOCK of two houses in Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6, is a small plaque remembering rebel leader Robert Emmet.
While his grand statue in St Stephen’s Green is a well-known landmark, this plaque is much easier to pass by without a second glance. But it holds quite an interesting story, as marking the site of the house where Emmet hid before his eventual capture and execution.
After his failed rising against British rule in July 1803, Emmet fled into hiding “and eventually ended up in a house Harold’s Cross under the assumed name of a lodger called Hewitt,” Pat Liddy of Pat Liddy’s Walking Tours tells TheJournal.ie.
“The plaque is beside a house that was built later and is not the house he was arrested in. The actual house, which stood on its its own, was demolished some time ago,” he says. “He wanted to be near his sweetheart, Sarah Curran, who lived with her father in Rathfarnham.”
However, just a few weeks later, Emmet’s ‘safe house’ was discovered and he was arrested by Town-Major of Dublin, Henry Sirr, on 25 August.
Emmet was sent to Kilmainham Gaol and tried at what’s now known as the Special Criminal Court on 19 September. He was found guilty of high treason and sentenced to be executed.
Emmet was executed publicly the following day in front of St Catherine’s Church, Thomas Street, Dublin 8. He was forbidden to address the crowd, but is reputed to have said: “My friends, I die in peace and with sentiments of universal love and kindness towards all men.”
Today, the plaque, which was erected in 2003, remembers Emmet by a small sketch of his profile and the house as it was when he hid there. It reads: “Robert Emmet, arrested on 25 August 1803 here in Palmer’s House while hiding as a lodger under the assumed name of Hewitt after the aborted rising.”
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Hardly news worthy
Wouldn’t want to be in a rush
@JoeyJoeJoeJrShabadoo: guards coming to a train in 40 minutes is fast, they usually take over an hour from experience.
@Paul: why not let the train go on time and take the guy with the problem off the train to report the problem, it is hardly a murder. Why does everyone have to pay for one stupid guy on the train?
“BATHROOM” on a Irish rail train???
‘Jacks’ ‘Cazey’ ‘Loo” Yea But ” Bathroom”
What have I been missing????
Hold the passengers hostage until someone confesses to something, anything at all.
Couldn’t tell my left from my right lol
@Anastasia: one with the watch
What a plonker.
“Anti-social behaviour”? Down with that sort of thing
Wonder if the incident happened at all. This train is regularly delayed due to this excuse. Probably like those bridges that get hit by trucks causing trains to be cancelled, yet the bridge is in perfect working order 20 minutes later..
@iMoan Brutal:
when a bridge gets struck it has to be inspected by engineers before it can be used .
@the truth: yes but most of the time there was no truck stuck or a truck anywhere near the bridge, just a train drive who slept in or taking an extended lunch. But recently they’ve stopped being stupid enough to name the location of the fake bridge hit
@Jayo Breathneach: Your right most probably true in some cases, but the amount of times its the reason on this specific route doesn’t add up, someones telling porkies either way
Why can’t the Guards pick up footage once train reaches its destination? Ridiculous delaying an entire train, all its passengers and rest of the network over a possibly stolen bag
Mis-carriage of justice ;)
No staff on board thought to check the carriages ? No need for the train to be delayed that long
@Suzie Sunshine: that would probably beagainst union rules
@James Brown: its making trains one person operated its company policy nothing to do with union rules
@the truth: Inter City trains have at least two or three staff on board.
shouldn’t have left his luggage unattended in the first place
he said he seen a fella walking off with it so hes stupid and a lying hoor.
@the truth: that’s the problem with “eyewitnesses ” sure didn’t some Irish tourist in medugorje see Madeline Mccann and heard her speak in english it turned out she was some croatian kid without a word of English
@iMoan Brutal: The bridges are fine because they’ve been checked by engineers to be structurally sound before the trains pass over it again ya mong! Maybe Irish Rail should just ignore all safety procedures just to stop you from whining? Jesus……
Fake news turns out to be true….
Bathroom? Was he having a bath? Are we all Americans now? Does the word toilet offend people?
What an idiot seriously
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