Robert Emmet
(1778 - 1803)
Presented to the People
of Ireland
by
The Robert Emmet
Statue Committee
of the
United States of America
April 13, 1966
Francis J. Kane, Chairman
Ambassador Scott McLeod
Devlin W. Dormer, Esq.
Hon. Michael J. Kirwan, M.C.
Hon. Thomas P. O'Neill, M.C.
Hon. Daniel J. Flood, M.C.
Hon. John E. Fogarty, M.C.
N. Mike Devlin, Esq.
The statue, erected in 1968, in a small enclave on the west side of the park faces the house in which Robert Emmet was born (now demolished). In 1803 he led an uprising for which he was executed. He was 25 years old.
The bronze statue is a replica of a statue in Washington which was commissioned by a group of Irish-Americans in 1916 and unveiled by President Wilson in 1917.
Courtesy hmdb.org
