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In Dublin, with their preparations revealed by an accidental explosion of a rebel arms depot, Emmet proceeded with a plan to seize the centres of government. The rising, for which Byrne turned out with Emmet and
Malachy Delaney in gold-trimmed green uniforms, was broken up after a brief confrontation
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Australia) in November, Byrne, assisted by his sister, escaped to Dublin. He recalled of his sister: “If I had not remarked a long scar on her neck, she would not have mentioned anything herself. A yeoman ... threatened to cut her throat with his sabre if
387:, Byrne met with the fugitive Emmet and agreed to go to Paris to procure French assistance. But in Paris, he found Napoleon's attentions (as in 1798) focussed elsewhere. The First Consul used a cessation of hostilities with Britain to pursue a very different venture, the re-enslavement of Haiti.
517:) but they had no children. Fanny's father was John Horner, a "merchant of Edinburgh", and her mother was Joanna Baillie. They were married on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1835 in the British Embassy Chapel in Paris. She had three brothers and two sisters. One of her brothers was
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Against the portrayal of '98 as a series of disjointed, unconnected risings, Byrne's memoirs presented the United
Irishmen as a cohesive revolutionary organisation whose aim of a democratic, secular, republic had captured the allegiance of a great mass of the Irish people.
283:(23 June) but had to deplore the murder of several prisoners and other atrocities committed by his men in revenge for the torture and executions that had been visited upon the peasantry by the yeomanry and government militia. After further skirmishes, he joined
478:, which are an account of his participation in the Irish rebellion and his time in the Irish Legion of Napoleon. These were first published in three volumes in 1863 (under the direction of his widow, Fanny), but there have been many subsequent reprints.
339:, just prior to Emmet's Rebellion: "I can never forget the impression this meeting made on me at the time - to see two heroic patriots, equally devoted to poor Ireland, discussing the best means of obtaining her freedom."
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In July 1803, the plans unravelled when
Michael Dwyer (Devlin's cousin), still holding out in Wicklow, recognised that there were neither the promised arms nor convincing proof of an intended French landing. In the north
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the oath-bound movement was determined to achieve an independent and representative government for
Ireland. He participated in preparations in Wexford for the 1798 Rebellion, and at the age of 18 fought at the
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Napoleon's Irish Legion. But at a time when Byrne was convinced that "all Catholic Ireland" was "ready to rise the moment a rallying point was offered", the Irish exiles
434:, the Duke of Feltre, (a son of Irish parents, who had advised Wolfe Tone) contributed to the latter's decision to quash the deportation order. In August 1817 Byrne was naturalised as a French citizen.
215:, and dictated his memoirs. In these, he advanced the image of the United Irishmen as a cohesive revolutionary organisation dedicated to the achievement of a national democratic government.
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she did not tell instantly the place in which I was hiding. The cowardly villain, no doubt, would have put his threat in execution had not some of his comrades interfered to prevent him".
560:(Dublin, 1991). According to the author, it was taken in Paris in 1859 and was thought to be the first photograph taken of an Irishman. That distinction is probably owed to an 1844
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chief among them) could not deflect the First Consul from other priorities. Rather than in
Ireland, with his diminishing Irish contingent, Byrne was to see action in the
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paper that under the early direction of Thomas David did much to rehabilitate the memory of the United
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appears to be a 1950s replacement for an earlier one. The inscription on his original headstone appears in his
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was approaching with a band, according to one witness, of 300, Emmet ordered what
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1000:"Corbet, William | Dictionary of Irish Biography"
744:""The dog that didn't bark": the North and 1803"
461:In the 1840s, Byrne was Paris correspondent for
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279:Keeping command of a small band, Byrne seized
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1167:Memoirs of Miles Byrne - edited by his Widow
198:he was deployed to Greece, and retired as a
853:"Napoléon Bonaparte and the Atlantic World"
769:Hammond, Joseph W.; Frayne, Michl. (1947).
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903:Howard, Donald D.; Gallaher, John (1999).
268:(9 June) in which the rebel leader Father
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1079:"Full Text of the Memoirs of Myles Byrne"
576:. (In 1821 Byrne had refused to attend a
558:"Fr John Murphy of Boolavogue: 1753-1798"
1176:(Dublin: Geography Publications, 1987).
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641:SINCEREMENT ATTACHE A L'lRLANDE
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909:The Journal of Military History
676:"Myles Byrne - Irish Biography"
319:for a renewed uprising. In his
154:and a fighter in the continued
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1174:"Wexford: History and Society"
950:Dunne-Lynch, Nicholas (2009).
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327:and the Wexford rebel leader
1129:"Thomas Moore - Irish Paris"
956:In the Shadow of the Steeple
728:Byrne, Miles (3 June 1907).
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501:Byrne was married (1835) in
383:Two days after the fight in
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859:, Oxford University Press,
235:, on 20 March 1780, into a
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905:"Napoleon's Irish Legion"
447:Greek War of Independence
426:. An introduction to the
71:24 January 1862 (aged 81)
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775:Dublin Historical Record
771:"The Emmet Insurrection"
730:"Memoirs of Miles Byrne"
379:In the service of France
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893:Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 314
591:, the residence of the
182:, seeing action in the
152:Irish Rebellion of 1798
21:Myles Byrne (Fair City)
1179:Leonard Horner (ed.),
1153:Memoirs of Miles Byrne
1113:Moore, Thomas (1831).
1064:Memoirs of Myles Byrne
680:www.libraryireland.com
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