page_title: Lord Edward FitzGerald
section_title: Return to Ireland
hierarchical_section_title: Lord Edward FitzGerald / Return to Ireland
caption_attribution_description: Lord Edward Fitzgerald, by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (died 1808). See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have been confirmed as author died before 1939 according to the official death date listed by the NPG.
context_page_description: Lord Edward FitzGerald was an Irish aristocrat and revolutionary who died after stabbing one of the men who attempted to arrest him but died shortly after from wounds received while resisting arrest on a charge of treason.
context_section_description: Ireland was by then seething with dissent which was finding a focus in the increasingly popular and revolutionary Society of the United Irishmen, which had been forced underground by the outbreak of war between France and Britain in 1793. Lord Edward FitzGerald, fresh from the gallery of the Convention in Paris, returned to his seat in the Irish Parliament and immediately sprang to their defence. Within a week of his return he was ordered into custody and required to apologise at the bar of the House of Commons for violently denouncing in the House a Government proclamation which Grattan had approved. However, it was not until 1796 that he joined the United Irishmen, who by now had given up as hopeless the path of constitutional reform and whose aim, after the recall of Lord FitzWilliam in 1795, was nothing less than the establishment of an independent Irish republic.
caption: Portrait of Edward FitzGerald by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1796. National Portrait Gallery, London.
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