Editing Thomas Moore (section)

===Trinity College and the United Irishmen===
In 1795, Moore was among the first Catholics admitted to [[Trinity College Dublin]], preparing, as his mother had hoped, for a career in law. Through the literary salon of the poet and satirist [[Henrietta Battier]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Linkin |first=Harriet Kramer |date=2014 |title=Mary Tighe, Thomas Moore, and the Publication of "Selena" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24541145 |journal=The Review of English Studies |volume=65 |issue=271 |pages=711–729 |doi=10.1093/res/hgt098 |jstor=24541145 |issn=0034-6551}}</ref> and his friends at Trinity, [[Robert Emmett]] and Edward Hudson, Moore was connected to the popular politics of the capital agitated by the [[French Revolution]] and by the prospect of a French invasion. With their encouragement, in 1797, Moore wrote an appeal to his fellow students to resist the proposal, then being canvassed by the English-appointed [[Dublin Castle administration]], to secure Ireland by incorporating [[Kingdom of Ireland|the kingdom]] in a union with [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]]. In April 1798, Moore was interrogated at Trinity but acquitted on the charge of being a party, through the [[Society of United Irishmen]], to sedition.<ref name="Kelly 2013">{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Ronan |date=22 February 2013 |title=Another side of Thomas Moore |url=https://www.historyireland.com/another-side-of-thomas-moore/ |access-date=31 July 2022 |website=History Ireland}}</ref>

Moore, though a friend of Emmett, had not taken the United Irish oath with Emmett and Hudson, and he played no part in the [[Irish rebellion of 1798|republican rebellion of 1798]] (Moore was at home, ill in bed),<ref name="Kelly 2013" /> or in [[Irish rebellion of 1803|the uprising in Dublin]] for which Emmett was executed in 1803.<ref name=":7">Anon., March 1853, "Lord John Russell's Memoirs of Moore" in ''Dublin Review'', vol. 34.</ref>{{rp|123}} Later, in a biography of the United Irish leader [[Lord Edward Fitzgerald]] (1831),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moore |first1=Thomas |title=The Life and Death of Edward Fitzgerald. Volume 1 |date=1831 |publisher=Longman, Reese, Orme, Brown & Green |location=London}}</ref> he made clear his sympathies, not hiding his regret that [[French expedition to Ireland (1796)|the French expedition]] under  [[Lazare Hoche|General Hoche]] failed in December 1796 to effect a landing.<ref name="Moore, Political and Historical Writings">{{cite book |last1=Moore |first1=Thomas |title=Political and Historical Writings on Irish and British Affairs by Thomas Moore, Introduced by Brendan Clifford |date=1993 |publisher=Athol Books |isbn=0-85034-067-5 |location=Belfast |pages=}}</ref>{{rp|132, 152-153}} To Emmett's sacrifice on the gallows Moore pays homage in the song  "O, Breathe Not His Name" (1808).