Sarah Curran
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Sarah Curran was an Irish musician, poet, belletrist, composer and embroiderer, known for being the fiancée of the executed Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet. Curren's relationship with Emmet, along wi
William Beechey (c. 1805) "Sarah Curran (1782–1808), Playing the Harp"
John Philpot Curran
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John Philpot Curran was an Irish orator, politician, and lawyer celebrated for his defence of civil and political liberty. He first won popular acclaim in 1780, as the only lawyer in his circuit willi
Sarah Curran
…with her premature death, galvanised her as a subject of nineteenth-century Irish nationalism. Curran was born in 1782 in Newmarket, County Cork to John Philpot Curran, a politician and lawyer, and Sarah Curran (née Creagh). One of nine siblings, Curran was the younger sister of the painter Amelia Curran. The family…
John Philpot Curran from NPG
"Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty" inscribed on a monument in Washington D.C.. Although there is no record of his employing the phrase, the words are often attributed to Thomas Jefferson. In the early nineteenth century, American newspapers credited various versions to Curran. In 1790, in a speech regarding the election of the Lord Mayor of London, Curran had proposed that "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."