Spish from the Doc

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  • Speech from the dock: Famous final words delivered by Irish patriot Robert Emmet, on the eve of his execution in 1803. Contains the lines "when my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written. I have done." (quoted in Ulysses 11.1284-1294)