Excerpt from Robert Emmet: His Birth-Place and Burial
Sometime since after reading for a second time Dr. R. R. Madden's Memoir of Robert Emmet, I resolved to place before Irishmen at home and abroad some entirely new facts and circumstances relating to the birth-place and burial of Emmet.
My researches were made with a twofold object first, to ascertain beyond all doubt or question where Robert Emmet was born, and, if possible, to exactly locate the house; and next, to throw further light upon the much-disputed question as to the actual place of his interment. Most of the particulars I now make known have not, I think, previously transpired. The task was undertaken in the hope of adding something to the store of National know ledge concerning the soul-stirring personality of Emmet, whose memory shall never die as long as Irishmen continue to think out the problem of accomplishing their country's freedom, following as the lode-star of her destiny the only true ideal by which he of whom I write was inspired to make the effort to break her chains.
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