List of Famous people born in Maynooth, Ireland

Lord Edward FitzGerald

First Name Lord

Last Name FitzGerald

Born on October 15, 1763

Died on June 4, 1798 (aged 34)

Born in Ireland, Leinster, County Kildare, Maynooth

Lord Edward FitzGerald was an Irish aristocrat who 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 and 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 leading proponent within the Society of United Irishmen of a French-assisted insurrection. On the eve of the intended uprising in May 1798 he was fatally wounded in the course of arrest.

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