Editing Robert Emmet (section)

===The Rising===
At 11 on the morning of 23 July 1803, Emmet showed men from Kildare an arsenal of pikes, grenades, rockets, and gunpowder-packed hollowed beams (these were to be dragged out onto the streets to prevent cavalry charges).  They noted only the absence of recognisable firearms and were unimpressed by Emmet, a "youngster" whose inexperience would place "the rope around the neck of decent men".<ref>Geoghegan (2002), p. 166</ref> They left to turn back other Kildare insurgents on the road to Dublin. The plan to surprise [[Dublin Castle]], and seize the [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland|viceroy]], was botched when the assailants prematurely revealed themselves.<ref name=":6" />

By evening Emmet, Malachy Delaney and [[Myles Byrne]] (turned out for the occasion in gold-trimmed green uniforms) were outside their [[Thomas Street, Dublin|Thomas Street]] arsenal – with just 80 men.<ref name=":6" /> [[Richard Robert Madden|R.R. Madden]] describes "a motley assemblage of armed men, a great number of whom were, if not intoxicated, under the evident excitement of drink".<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Beiner|first=Guy|date=2004|editor-last=Elliott|editor-first=Marianne|editor2-last=Geoghegan|editor2-first=Patrick M.|editor3-last=McMahon|editor3-first=Sean|editor4-last=Brádaigh|editor4-first=Seón Ó.|editor5-last=O'Donnell|editor5-first=Ruán|title=The Legendary Robert Emmet and His Bicentennial Biographers|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29736249|journal=The Irish Review|issue=32|pages=98–104, 100, 102|doi=10.2307/29736249|jstor=29736249|issn=0790-7850|access-date=13 June 2021|archive-date=13 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613225450/https://www.jstor.org/stable/29736249|url-status=live}}</ref> Unaware that [[John Allen (Irish nationalist)|John Allen]] was approaching with a band, according to one witness, of 300,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hammond|first1=Joseph W.|last2=Frayne|first2=Michl.|date=1947|title=The Emmet Insurrection|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30083906|journal=Dublin Historical Record|volume=9|issue=2|pages=59–68|jstor=30083906|issn=0012-6861|access-date=30 July 2021|archive-date=30 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730191732/https://www.jstor.org/stable/30083906|url-status=live}}</ref> and shaken by the sight of a lone [[dragoon]] being pulled from his horse and piked to death, Emmet told the men to disperse.<ref name="ricorso2">{{cite web|year=2010|title=Robert Emmet|url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/index.htm|access-date=6 October 2010|publisher=Ricorso|archive-date=25 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725083231/http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/index.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> He had already stood down sizeable insurgent groups straddling the main suburban roads by pre-arranged signal, a solitary rocket.<ref name=":52">{{Cite web|last=O'Donnell|first=Ruan|date=2021|title=The Rising of 1803 in Dublin|url=https://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/the-rising-of-1803-in-dublin/|access-date=2021-11-30|website=History Ireland}}</ref>

Sporadic clashes continued into the night. In one incident, the [[Lord Chief Justice of Ireland]], [[Lord Kilwarden]], was dragged from his [[carriage]] and stabbed by pikes. Found still alive, he was taken to a watch-house where he died shortly thereafter. Kilwarden had used his position to help his cousin, [[Wolfe Tone]], to avoid prosecution in 1794. He was nonetheless reviled for the prosecution and hanging of [[William Orr (United Irishman)|William Orr]] in 1797 and, in the wake of 1798, of several Catholic [[Defenders (Ireland)|Defenders]]. Kilwarden's nephew, the Rev. Mr Wolfe, was also killed,  although his daughter was not harmed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rewind: The murder of Lord Kilwarden|url=https://www.echo.ie/show/article/rewind-the-murder-of-lord-kilwarden|access-date=2021-06-08|website=www.echo.ie|date=26 March 2020|language=en-gb|archive-date=8 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608141217/https://www.echo.ie/show/article/rewind-the-murder-of-lord-kilwarden|url-status=live}}</ref>

Emmet fled the city arriving in Rathfarnham with a party of 16 men. When he heard that Wicklowmen were still planning to rise, he issued a countermanding order to prevent needless violence.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Geohegan|first=Patrick|title=Robert Emmet|publisher=Gill & Macmillan|year=2002|isbn=0717133877|location=Dublin|pages=185}}</ref> Instead he ordered [[Myles Byrne|Byrne]] to Paris to again solicit the French.<ref name="Quinn 2002 267"/>