Incidents of my life, professional, literary, social, with services in the cause of Ireland / by Thomas Addis Emmet.
- Thomas Addis Emmet
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Incidents of my life, professional, literary, social, with services in the cause of Ireland / by Thomas Addis Emmet. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![Limited Field of Usefulness of concealment, but as the means of obtaining a dignified bond of union, and this would establish a pride of country which it would be difficult for England to corrupt. So long as English is the language of the country the people must remain in a state of slavery to English interests, and as in the past, open to corruption and bribery. Would to God that I could by words impress the Irish people with the importance to their future welfare, as I see it, of the position I have attempted to point out. After a lifetime passed by the writer in his efforts to benefit the Irish people, and with year after year passed as if the future was but the embodiment of a hope deferred, he now feels that his occupation will soon be gone, by Ireland gaining what her people have so long striven for. His advanced age necessitates that contingency under any circum- stances in the near future. His life is now narrowed down to a very lim- ited field of usefulness on account of his bodily infirmities, so that he is restricted chiefly to his library and the range of a single story in his residence. But so long as it is God’s will to preserve his mental activity, his time will be fully occupied with literary work, which is a great source of enjoyment to him. One day must necessarily be but a counterpart of the preceding one; there can occur nothing in the future but his death which would be of sufficient interest to the reader. As it would be unreasonable to expect him to place on record such an event, he may well leave this duty to some one else, and bring his “ Incidents” to a close with the end of the year one thousand nine hundred and nine. It may be of interest to the reader to have an insight into my sur- roundings and the limited field of action to which I have become reduced in my old age. I cannot furnish a better sketch than the following from the pen of that brilliant speaker and litterateur, the Hon. T. P. O’Gonnor, M.P., who has been a friend of many years standing. As I only wish to give the reader this information and show where I shall pass the re- maining portion of my life, I shall be excused from the charge of vanity. Mr. O’Connor wrote what at least he believed to be true and with no expectation of it coming to my knowledge, as I did not know that he had written it until over a year after, and then only by accident. A Visit to Doctor Emmet By T. P. O’Connor, M. P. [From the Irish Packet, March 16, 1907.] You all know who Dr. Emmet is. When Robert Emmet had been executed, and after his release from prison, Thomas Addis Emmet sailed for America. There he joined the bar, became one of its leaders, and one of New York’s most distinguished and respected citizens, and to-day there stands in St.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28034776_0555.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
