Rediscovering Emmet's Dublin Through the Collections of Dublin City Libraries

Rediscovering Emmet’s Dublin Through the collections of Dublin City Public Libraries Dr Máire Kennedy 15 March 2010

• Social life in late 18th-century Dublin • The Emmet family • Political turmoil

Dix Collection

Social life in late 18th-century Dublin

James Malton, A Picturesque and Descriptive View of Dublin, 1799 College Green showing the façade of Trinity College and the statue of King William

Theatrical Entertainment

The Emmet family Footprints of Emmet, J. J. Reynolds, Dublin, 1903 Memoir of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet, New York, 1915

Robert Emmet 1778-1803 Hibernian Magazine September 1803 John Rocque, An exact survey of Dublin, 1756

Dr Robert Emmet senior (1729-1802) State Physician 109, St Stephen’s Green Wilson’s Plan of Dublin 1778

Dublin, James Duffy, 1846 New York, 1850

Glasgow, 1902

London, 1870 Belfast, 1858

Dublin, 1949 London, 1935

Dublin, 2002 Dublin, 1958

Dr Robert Emmet senior (1729-1802) State Physician 109, St Stephen’s Green Wilson’s Plan of Dublin 1778

Bank of Ireland Stock Book 1783 to 1801

Edited by Joshua Edkins

Christopher Temple Emmet Contributor to A Collection of Poems Edited by Joshua Edkins

Thomas Addis Emmet

Samuel Whyte English Grammar School 75 Grafton Street

Robert Pool and John Cash Views of the most remarkable public buildings, Dublin, 1780.

John Locke, Treatise concerning

Political turmoil 1798 broadsides Madden Secret Service papers Union Pamphlets Newspaper coverage

Broadsheets relating to the 1798 rebellion

R.R. Madden’s Collection of original documents relating to Secret Service money dealings

Pamphlets relating to the proposed Union between Great Britain and Ireland

Freeman’s Journal online at www.irishnewsarchive.com

Denys Scully Collection of 128 Pamphlets relating to the Catholic question

The Insurrection of the Twenty-Third July, 1803, Printed in Dublin, 1803.

Emmet’s trial

Pool and Cash Views of the most Remarkable Public Buildings, Dublin, 1780 St Catherine’s Church

Nicholas Carolan, Robert Emmet and Songs of Rebellion, Dublin, 2003

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