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==Honours== Places named after Emmet in the United States include [[Emmetsburg, Iowa|Emmetsburg]], Iowa;<ref name="irishamerica">{{cite web|title=A Small Town Struggles to Preserve Its Irish Heritage|url=http://www.celticcousins.net/paloalto/emmetstatue.htm|work=Irish America Magazine Sept/Oct. 1993|access-date=9 March 2007|archive-date=7 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070407012201/http://www.celticcousins.net/paloalto/emmetstatue.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Emmet, Nebraska|Emmet]], Nebraska;<ref>Campbell, Dorine. [http://casde.unl.edu/history/counties/holt/emmet/ "Emmet".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100717084726/http://casde.unl.edu/history/counties/holt/emmet/ |date=17 July 2010 }} [http://casde.unl.edu/history/index.php Nebraska...Our Towns] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100618011632/http://casde.unl.edu/history/index.php |date=18 June 2010 }} Retrieved 2010-06-16.</ref> [[Emmet County, Iowa|Emmet County]], Iowa; Emmett, Michigan and [[Emmet County, Michigan|Emmet County]], Michigan,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n118 119]}}</ref> and Emmet Street in the historic French neighborhood of [[Soulard, St. Louis]].<ref>{{Google maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Emmet+St,+St.+Louis,+MO+63104/@38.6098753,-90.2076948,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x87d8b39ff74174a5:0x29ab3a761d021d10!8m2!3d38.6098753!4d-90.2055061 |title=Map of Emmet Street with pin |access-date=26 April 2021}}</ref> The Robert Emmet Elementary School in [[Chicago, Illinois]] was named for him. Two time All Ireland Club Camogie Champions [[Slaughtneil GAC|Robert Emmet's GAC Slaughtneil]] is named after him. [[Emmet Park]] in Savannah, Georgia, was named after Emmet in 1902 in preparation for the centennial of his death. Statues were erected in his honour: * A life-size bronze statue of Robert Emmet by [[Jerome Connor]] stands in [[St Stephen's Green]], Dublin, the parkland beside which Emmet was born. A copy stands in [[Emmetsburg, Iowa]]. * A bronze statue of Emmet by Jerome Connor stands in Washington, DC on Embassy Row (Massachusetts Avenue NW and S Street NW). A public commemoration of Emmet's execution and legacy is held annually on the fourth Sunday in September by the Irish American Unity Conference. * A copy of this statue was installed on the Music Concourse in front of the [[California Academy of Sciences]] in [[San Francisco]]'s [[Golden Gate Park]]. <gallery class="center"> File:Robert Emmet.JPG|Bronze statue of [[Robert Emmet (Connor)|Robert Emmet]], 1916, by [[Jerome Connor]], from the collection of the [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]]. It is installed in [[Washington, DC]]'s Embassy Row.<ref name=SAAM>{{cite web|title="Robert Emmet" by Jerome Connor|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=5236|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|access-date=13 June 2015|archive-date=16 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616000556/http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=5236|url-status=live}}</ref> File:Robert Emmet, Stephens Green, Dublin.jpg|Statue of Robert Emmet in [[St Stephens Green]], [[Dublin]] File:Photo of Robert Emmet statue San Francisco Golden Gate Park.jpg|Reproduction of Robert Emmet statue in San Francisco's [[Golden Gate Park]] </gallery> * A statue of Robert Emmet is in the courthouse square in Emmetsburg, Iowa.
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