A birds eye view of St Catherine's Castle is the best way to see its military defences. ⚔️
Originally built by Henry VIII in the 1530s, the castle was modified in the 19th century during the Crimean War and again during the Second World War. 🛡️🏰
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Today we visit a gruesome watershed moment in Irish history, the execution of Robert Emmet. It's the morning of the 20th of September 1803. We join a restless crowd outside St Catherine’s Church on Thomas Street. What began as a farcical rebellion has hardened into a drama of martyrdom.
Emmet’s insurrection, like his death, was a tragedy of errors. His plan to seize Dublin Castle on 23 July dissolved into chaos. Weapons misfired, lads panicked, and a crowd killed Lord Chief Justice Kilwarden in a street attack Emmet neither ordered nor condoned. Shocked by the violence, Emmet fled to the Dublin mountains. Yet weeks later he returned to see Sarah Curran, sealing his fate.
On the 25th of August, Emmet was arrested in Harold’s Cross by Major Henry Charles Sirr. The government intended the trial to be swift. It was also thick with betrayal as Emmet’s defence counsel, Leonard MacNally, was a Crown informant who collected a £200 bonus after the guilty verdict. Presiding was that twisted prick Lord Norbury, the notorious “Hanging Judge,” who interrupted Emmet’s final address repeatedly.
Yet by the time sentence was passed, even Norbury appeared shaken. Emmet refused to beg for mercy, uttering the lines that defined his afterlife:
“Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written.” In my opinion we still haven't fulfilled that promise, but soon Rob!
Anyway, back to Thomas Street on that fateful day as the scaffold stood in the mud. Infantry and dragoons lined the road. Emmet appeared perfectly composed, dressed in black. On the scaffold he addressed the crowd: “My friends, I die in peace.”
The executioner, Thomas Galvin, was poorly prepared. When the trap fell, Emmet struggled for several minutes. After half an hour, the body was cut down and Galvin severed the head. When held aloft, the crowd responded with a collective groan of anguish. Blood ran into the gutter, lapped up by stray dogs. Emmet’s body went unclaimed and he was buried secretly in an unmarked grave, I think its in Bully’s Acre.
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St Catherine’s Castle perched on a rocky promontory at the mouth of the River Fowey in Cornwall. Built by Thomas Treffry between 1538 and 1540, the Tudor fort was constructed to defend the harbour against potential invasion from France and Spain.
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