SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Robert Emmet

1778 - 1803

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Robert Emmet (4 March 1778 – 20 September 1803) was an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. Following the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise a renewed attempt to overthrow the British Crown and Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, and to establish a nationally representative government. Emmet entertained, but ultimately abandoned, hopes of immediate French assistance and of coordination with radical militants in Great Britain. In Ireland, many of the surviving veterans of '98 hesitated to lend their support, and his rising in Dublin in 1803 proved abortive. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Emmet is the 613th most popular social activist (up from 617th in 2019), the 320th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 321st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Irish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Robert Emmet ranks 613 out of 840. Before him are Dolores Huerta, Yelizaveta Chaikina, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Lida Heymann, Neerja Bhanot, and Manal al-Sharif. After him are Usha Mehta, Oleksandra Matviichuk, Barbara Bush, Marguerite Higgins, Oinikhol Bobonazarova, and Yolanda King.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Robert Emmet ranks 49. Before him are Mariano Moreno, José de la Mar, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, Joseph Grimaldi, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, and Javier de Burgos. After him is Rembrandt Peale. Among people deceased in 1803, Robert Emmet ranks 42. Before him are George Bass, Georges-Louis Le Sage, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, Lemuel Francis Abbott, Peter Ascanius, and Nikolay Lvov.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Robert Emmet ranks 320 out of 549. Before him are Tom Kiely (1869), Barney McKenna (1939), John McKenna (1855), Colm Wilkinson (1944), Matt Doherty (1992), and Geraldine Somerville (1967). After him are Paul Mescal (1996), Billy Whelan (1935), Colum McCann (1965), Patrick Leahy (1877), Thomas Fitzsimons (1741), and Desmond Connell (1926).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ireland

Among social activists born in Ireland, Robert Emmet ranks 5. Before him are Mary Harris Jones (1837), William Howard Russell (1820), Wolfe Tone (1763), and Eoin O'Duffy (1890). After him are William Smith O'Brien (1803).

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