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Robert Emmet wrote this famous letter in September 1803 to his fiancee Sarah Curran . After the rising in September 1803 he was imprisoned in Kilmainham Jail . The uprising began prematurely on 1803-07-23 in Dublin but did not get much further than a failed attempt to take Dublin Castle . It ended in general rioting, during which the Lord Chief Justice Of Ireland was murdered in his carriage. Robert Emmet had to go into hiding. He was captured on 1803-08-25 near Harold's Cross . He was tried by the English for Treason on 1803-09-19 and on 1803-09-20 he was executed by hanging and beheading in Dublin. His remains were then secretly buried (but allegedly found in a vault in an Anglican Church ). On 1803-09-08 , Robert Emmet wrote a letter from his cell in Kilmainham Jail , Dublin. He addressed it to "Miss Sarah Curran , the Priory , Rathfarnham " and handed it to a prison warden, George Dunn, whom he trusted to deliver it. Dunn betrayed him and gave the letter to the government authorities, an action that nearly cost Sarah Curran her life. |
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