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Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr (1915)

Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr (1915)

Drama History
Release Date: 1915, August 11
Directors: Sidney Olcott
Cast: Robert Rivers, Valentine Grant, Laurene Santley, P. H. O'Malley, Jack Melville

Overview:

This play is enacted during the stormy days when Robert Emmett tried vainly to free Ireland. Con Daly loves Nora Doyle, who lives with her mother in a little cottage amid the hills and dales of old Erin. In a cave nearby the men who would free Ireland are making arms and ammunition. Robert Emmett visits them, and then goes into the enemy's camp disguised as a flute player, and returns safely. The constabulary visits a family and a riot starts, and as a result Major Kirk is shot. Desperately wounded, he is taken to the home of Mrs. Doyle. Nora and Con nurse him back to health.