UNNAMED GRAVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)

UNNAMED GRAVE.

IRISH PATRIOT'S END. CAPTURE DUE TO WOMAN. "yHE refusal of the British Governi ment to turn over Sir Roger Casement's corpse to his family may have resulted from its experiences with that of the celebrated Robert Emmet. During the American Civil War Emmet was born in ])übliii, and at Trinity College he made a brilliant record. He planned for himself a career as a lawyer and developed such a gift of oratory that he was able to sway his classmates to an extent that more than assured his success as a politician. He could shape the opinions of his hearers as he willed. Wherever he went heads were bared in honour.

Joining the society of United Irishmen, he avowed himself a republican and stirred that body with, a scries of speeches thai shocked the sensibilities of the college authorities and leu to his expulsion. He now proclaimed his purpose t° separate Ireland from Great Britain and establish it as an independent republic. Hβ helped to foment the rebellion of 170S, but that movement proved abortive and Emmet had to leave Ireland and take refuge in France, from which he returned secretly in ISO 2. Then caiiie the great Irish insurrection of 150. , !. Emmet took up leadership in the movement. Established Munitions Depots. Carefully organising tho rebels, he established munitions depots in various parts of Dublin, and fixed upon July 23 as the time for seizing the castle and arsenals of the Irish capital. On the eve of that day he directed the distribution of pikes among tho assembled conspirators and next day the insurgent band, cheering as they dashed through tho streets, swelled into a furious mob,

His brother-in-law, John Patten, claims that one of the men who buried it had assured him that the body lay in St. Michael's Church. Dublin. "According to this man, a large stone which, out of respect for Emmet's wishes, bore no inscription, was placed over the grave. But the Church records were ransacked and no clue to any body that might possibly, be that of the Irish patriot was ever found therein. Accordwas in tho Protestant' churchyard of Glasnevin. Pome members of the family maintain that it was hidden in the family vault at St. Peter's. The res'tiii'.' place of Emmet's remains is to-day as deep a mystery as it was