Ireland

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Robert Emmet, Irish patriot, is executed in Dublin. Emmet becomes a hero of Irish nationalists, largely on the basis of his stirring speech from the dock - Let no man write my epitaph ...When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then,

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Death of John Barry, a native of Ballystampson, Co. Wexford, Commodore in the US Navy and renowned as the Father of the American Navy

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French Irish Legion organized in Brittany

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Samuel Neilson, co-founder of the United Irishmen, dies

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The British capture Robert Emmet

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James Napper Tandy, Irish patriot, dies in exile in France.

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Edmund Rice opens a school for poor boys in Waterford - precursor of the schools run by the Christian Brothers

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Robert Emmet leads an armed outbreak

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