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| | Irish Writers - Thomas D'Arcy McGee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | This was Robert, youngest brother of Thomas Addis Emmet, whose _emeute_ of 1803 would long since have sunk to the level of other city riots, but for the matchless dying speech of which it was the prelude and the occasion. |
 | | His chief confidants and assistants were Thomas Russell and Mathew Dowdall, formerly prisoners at Fort-George, but now permitted to return; William Putnam McCabe, the most adventurous of all the party, a perfect Proteus in disguise; Gray, a Wexford attorney; Colonel Lumm of Kildare, an old friend of Lord Edward Fitzgerald; Mr. |
 | | Thomas Campbell, the Poet of Hope, always and everywhere the friend of freedom, threw open his _New Monthly_, to Shiel, and William Henry Curran, whose sketches of the Irish Bar and Bench, of Dublin politics, and the county elections of 1826, will live as long as any periodical papers of the day. |
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