![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So, after the hanging, and despite the official sentence, they merely beheaded him. Tolerance for that atrocity had declined over the centuries. Grisly as poor Robert Emmet’s fate was, it did not include drawing and quartering. Like Oscar Wilde’s birthplace, it has a fine CV, especially for a job in the history/heritage sector.Įven so, I have one small quibble. I don’t for a moment cast doubt on the appointment process by which the premises has earned its position. It has been a pub for over 200 years, and has many historical connections, being beside St Catherine’s Church, outside of which the patriot Robert Emmet was hung, drawn and quartered”. I had long thought that to be just a vague, even meaningless, cliché.īut by a small coincidence, I also noticed the phrase recently on the website of a Dublin pub, which read (the website, that is, not the pub, although no doubt the pub can read too now) as follows: Perhaps this is what estate agents mean when they say that offices or homes are “well appointed”. ![]()
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