“Emmet to hang!” The launch of a new 200th-anniversary Robert Emmet board in Ard Eoın/Ardoyne (“Comóradh Ard Eoın – Roıbeard Emmet 1803-2003”) included a re-enactment of Emmet’s execution on 20th September, 1803, for his role as the leader of the 1803 rising of the United Irishmen (WP). The words along the bottom of the board – “Let no man write my epitaph until my country takes her place among the nations of the world” – come from Emmet’s Speech From The Dock, given after the ‘guilty’ verdict was announced.
In the medallions in the corners are (clockwise) three United Irish republicans Michael Dwyer, (cousin) Anne Devlin and Thomas Russell, and Emmet’s fiancée Sarah Curran.
A mural to Emmet was one of the very few CNR mural painted before the Troubles, in 1953 for the sesquicentennial – see Visual History 02.
Havana Way, Ard Eoın/Ardoyne, north Belfast
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