‘His grave is Ireland’: The search for Robert Emmet’s body

A shot of the digging in St Peter’s Church, Aungier Street. Photograph: Representative Church Body Library/Colin O’Riordan

The desire to locate the body of Emmet and give him a final resting place became particularly acute during the centenary of his death in 1903.Emmet requested an archaeological dig at the family vault in St Peter’s Church in Aungier Street. From left is Dr Thomas Addis Emmet, Robert’s great-nephew, James Franklin Fuller and two unidentified men. Photograph: Representative Church Body Library/Colin O’RiordanThe photographs were discovered by Colin O’Riordan, a photographer, who was responsible for archiving the Irish Press photographic department. He noticed the slides were taken before the Irish Press began in 1931.

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