%0 Book %A Emmet, Robert, 1778-1803 %I Independent Newspapers, Ltd., 111 Middle Abbey St. %D 1916 %C Dublin %G English %T Robert Emmet's last speech from the dock in verse for recitation "The best patriotic poem since Shamus O'Brien". %X Robert Emmet's last speech adapted to verse form - first line reads: 'You ask, my Lords, if I have aught to say why death should not proceed without delay?'.. 'The last speech of Robert Emmet - every line of which, as T.D. [Timothy Daniel] Sullivan put it, is known and dear to the hearts of the Irish race - was made in the Green Street Courthouse on the occasion of his trial for High Treason in connection with the Dublin Rising of 1803'. Item reads: 'The above poem may be had in full as a small booklet and is published by Messr. Duffy and Co. 38 Westmoreland Street, Dublin, Price Sixpence.