Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-04
Il Will be HOnOred Here This
Evening
BY A GRAND CELEBRATION
The Irish Societies Have United For
the Purpose of Giving This
Entertainment,

721st anniversary of the birth Of Robert
Emmett, which will be celebrated as 1t
never was before in the Copper CITY IL
will consist of a literary and musical en-
ertainment in commemoration of Ire
lands illustriouS martyr, Robert Emmet,
to be given under the auspices OF the
Irish societies of Anaconda. A special
train will come down from Butte to carry
a few hundred of the members OF the
Robert Emmett Literary club and their
friends who will come dow to do honor
to the occasion. The committee in
charge of the affair is P. H. Cuddihy,
chairman; NJ. M. Donoghue, secretary;
D. F. Hallahan, William Kelly, +. Gogar-
ty, T.. P. Purcell, R. R. Kilroy, Frank
Dolan and T. F. Flynn. The programme
to be rendered is as follows:
Echoes of Ireland. Mahan orchestra
Address ........ president p. H. Cuddlhy
Song-..The Heart Bowed Down'......
500. .......... ......Douglass smith
songN"Believe Me if All Those En-
dearing Young Charms ..:....
Recitation-"The Uplifting of the Ban
ner" ...............J G.. Moore
Song-"Father O'Flynn' ...R. G. Geddes
Oration-"Robert Emmett IT. p. Purcell
God Save Ireland ......By the audience
Robert Emmett was born in Dublin on
March 4, 177S. He was the son OF DR..
Robert Emmett, a well known and highly
respected physician. Young Emmett was
sent to receive his education at Trinity
college,. In the historical society, COM
posed of the alumni of the college. and
on whose books at this time We're many
names that subsequently became famous,
those kindred spirits made for themselves
-, 49,. of rivi,,r o. yt,n Sjn
to their sentiments and showing that
their hearts beat in unison with the great
movement for human freedom which was
then agitating the world. To their de-
bates Emmet brought the aid OF a hne
intellect and a fluent utterance, and he
soon became the orator OF the patriot
party. To such extremities did matters
proceed at last that Emmett, with several
of his political friends, was expelled from
college. His expulsion occurred in Feb
ruary, 1898. During the same year he
came to the continent, and there advised
with other Irish refugees. The United
Irishmen, of which Emmett was a men,
Der, put themselves in communication
with Bonaparte, and received Hatterlng
promises of assistance against England.
Emmett obtained ar interview with that
great man to effect an invasion of Eng
land. He returned to Dublin in October,
1902, passed under assumed names and
gathered together the remnants OF the
United Irish organization. In the month
of May. 1903, the war between France and
England broke out. The uprising and at
tack on Dublin castle was set for July
%, 1903. The number calculated upon did
not turn out as anticipated. No attack
was made on the castle. The insurgents
scattered and in little more than an hour
from the time of his setting out on his
desperate enterprise Robert Emmett was
a defeated and ruined man. He might
have gotten away, but this true patriot
and true soldier was a true lover. His
sweetheart was Sarah Curran, a lady of
the highest type, in every way worthy OF
the love of the Irish patriot. They We're
betrothed. His crushed hopes and for
tunes We're equally distressing to her. He
therefore would not depart from the Em-
erald Isle without one adieu. He was a
last arrested at the house of a friend anG
placed on trial for his life, found guilty
of high treason and put to death.
His speech in the dock before receiving
sentence has been read and repeated by
1rishmen for nearly a century wherever
an Irishman can be found, and has beer
considered by all nations one of the
%grandest speeches in behalf of freedom
that ever was delivered from the lips OF
mortal man.