Lord Edward FitzGerald (15 October 1763 – 4 June 1798) was an Irish aristocrat who abandoned his prospects as a distinguished veteran of British service in the American War of Independence, and as an Irish Parliamentarian, to embrace the cause of an independent Irish republic. Unable to reconcile with Ireland's Protestant Ascendancy and with the Kingdom's English-appointed administration, he sought inspiration in revolutionary France where, in 1792, he met and befriended Thomas Paine. From 1796 he became a leading proponent within the Society of United Irishmen of a French-assisted insurrectio
Lord Edward FitzGerald (15 October 1763 – 4 June 1798) was an Irish aristocrat who abandoned his prospects as a distinguished veteran of British service in the American War of Independence, and as an Irish Parliamentarian, to embrace the cause of an independent Irish republic. Unable to reconcile with Ireland's Protestant Ascendancy and with the Kingdom's English-appointed administration, he sought inspiration in revolutionary France where, in 1792, he met and befriended Thomas Paine. From 1796 he became a leading proponent within the Society of United Irishmen of a French-assisted insurrection. On the eve of the intended uprising in May 1798 he was fatally wounded in the course of arrest. From the book Ireland in '98 : sketches of the principal men of the time, based upon the published volumes and some unpublished mss. of the late Dr. Richard Robert Madden. With engraved portraits and contemporary illustrations by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles), editor; Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886, bibliographic antecedent; Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., publisher; Spottiswoode & Co., printer Published in London by Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., Paternoster Square in 1888
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