Lord Edward FitzGerald

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title: Lord Edward FitzGerald
text: Lord Edward FitzGerald was an Irish aristocrat and nationalist. He abandoned his prospects as a distinguished veteran of British service in the American War of Independence, and as an Irish Parliamentarian, to embrace the cause of an independent Irish republic. Unable to reconcile with Ireland's Protestant Ascendancy or with the Kingdom's English-appointed administration, he sought inspiration in revolutionary France where, in 1792, he met and befriended Thomas Paine. From 1796 he became a leadi
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description: Irish nationalist (1763–1798)
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Edward_FitzGerald
date created: 2003-03-13T22:30:10Z
date modified: 2024-09-10T15:23:18Z
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