Excerpt from The Irish Orators: A History of Ireland's Fight for Freedom

Flood, Grattan, Plunkett, O'connell, Meagher, Butt, Parnell - the careers of these men, in the ensemble, constitute the history of Ireland from the vice-royalty of the insufferable Townsend to the beginning of the present century. Two splendid and inspiring men of genius who never aspired to political leadership but whose work for Ireland constitutes an essential part of any history of the struggle for nationality were John Philpot Curran and Robert Emmet. The one wrought as brilliantly in the courts, and the other as inspiringly upon the scaffold, as O'connell on the hust ings, or Parnell in the halls of Westminster.

Thus I have tried to set forth through the studies of these nine men all the essential facts in the history of Ireland from the middle of the eighteenth to the beginning of the present century.

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