Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. The Emmet legend xix
7. Introduction
8. Sacrifice and Catharsis: 19–20 September 1803 3
9. Romance Revisited: the Sarah Curran Story 23
10. Conspiracies and connections 38
11. The Life
12. ‘An Irish Washington’: The Early Life of Robert Emmet 51
13. Warfare and Technology: The Imagination of an Insurrection 86
14. Return to Ireland 116
15. Coup d’état and Bloody Protest: 23 July 1803 154
16. The Pursuit of Robert Emmet 183
17. Captivity and Cross-Examination 201
18. The Trial of Robert Emmet 226
19. The Appointed Time: Death and Reinvention 255
20. The Temple and Emmet genealogy 272
21. The Early Poetry of Robert Emmet 276
22. Manifesto of the Provisional Government 288
23. Abbreviations 297
24. References 298
25. Bibliography 328
26. Index 338