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Born October 15, 1763 • Ireland
Died June 4, 1798 (aged 34) • London • England
Role In Irish Rebellion
Wolfe Tone
Irish leader
Emmet, Robert
Robert Emmet
Irish leader
Daniel O'Connell
Daniel O’Connell
Irish leader
Thomas Addis Emmet
Irish lawyer
Eamon de Valera
Eamon de Valera
president of Ireland
William Thomas Cosgrave
William Thomas Cosgrave
president of Ireland
Arthur Griffith
Arthur Griffith
president of Dáil Éireann
Michael Collins
Michael Collins
Irish statesman
Henry Flood
Henry Flood
Anglo-Irish statesman
Sir Roger Casement
British politician
Patrick Henry Pearse.
Patrick Pearse
Irish poet and statesman
Robert Erskine Childers
Robert Erskine Childers
Irish writer and nationalist
William Smith O'Brien, lithograph by H. O'Neill after a daguerreotype by Glukman, 1848
William Smith O’Brien
Irish patriot
Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
Irish politician
Mannix, Daniel
Daniel Mannix
Australian archbishop
Henry Grattan, oil painting by Francis Wheatley; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Henry Grattan
Anglo-Irish statesman
William Henry O’Shea
Irish nationalist
Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell
Irish leader
Constance Markievicz
Anglo-Irish countess and political activist
John Dillon, 1890
John Dillon
Irish leader