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Edward Fitzgerald (1770?-1807) was an Irish insurgent leader in the United Irish Rebellion of 1798 . Fitzgerald, born at Newpark, County Wexford, about 1770, was a country gentleman of considerable means. When the Irish Rebellion of 1798 broke out he was confined in Wexford gaol on suspicion. On being released by the people, he commanded in ...
Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Lord Edward Fitzgerald joined the United Irishmen in 1796. He was motivated by enthusiasm for the ideals of the French Revolution. In May of 1798, the government offered a £1000 reward for Fitzgerald's arrest. He was caught and died of a bullet wound at Newgate Jail on 4 June 1798. Courtesy of the National Library of ...
Lord Edward Fitzgerald was a member of the British nobility who renounced his privileged background to become an Irish nationalist. He described himself as “a Paddy and no more”. He was one of the leaders of the 1798 Rebellion and was so successful that the authorities placed a £1,000 bounty on his head. He was eventually arrested for ...
Fitzgerald, el quinto hijo del I duque de Leinster y Lady Emily Lennox, hija de Charles Lennox, II duque de Richmond, nació en Carton House, cerca de Dublín. En 1773 su padre falleció y su madre se casó poco después con William Ogilvie, que supervisó la educación de Fitzgerald. 1 Edward pasó la mayor parte de su niñez en Frescati House ...
Lady Edward FitzGerald. Stéphanie Caroline Anne Syms, Lady Edward FitzGerald ( c. 1773 – 9 November 1831) was the wife of Lord Edward FitzGerald, the radical revolutionary and leading United Irishman, and was herself an enthusiastic supporter of Irish independence, scarcely less celebrated at the time than her husband. Her origins are uncertain.
27. März 2024 · Edward FitzGerald (born March 31, 1809, Bredfield, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, Eng.—died June 14, 1883, Merton, Norfolk) was an English writer, best known for his Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, which, though it is a very free adaptation and selection from the Persian poet’s verses, stands on its own as a classic of English literature. It is one of the most frequently quoted of lyric poems, and ...
