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Photographer: 1917 bronze by Jerome Connor, photograph by Devry Becker Jones
Taken: January 13, 2018
Caption: Robert Emmet, Irish Patriot, 1778-1803
Additional Description: Statue is 6¾ feet high on a 5 foot base. On the base is inscribed “Lidia-saon-eine” and “I wished to procure for my country the guarantee which Washington procured for America. I have parted from everything that was dear to me in this life for my country’s cause. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.”
Submitted: January 13, 2018, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p539516
File Size: 3.784 Megabytes

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