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Curran, John Philpot (kŭr`ən), 1750–1817, Irish statesman and orator. He became the best-known trial lawyer in Dublin when he was still very young and entered the Irish Parliament in 1783. He fought for Catholic Emancipation Catholic Emancipation, term applied to the process by which Roman Catholics in the British Isles were relieved in the late 18th and early 19th cent. of civil disabilities.
..... Click the link for more information. and vigorously opposed the repressive policy of the British government in Ireland. He was defense lawyer for the leaders of the United Irishmen United Irishmen or United Irish Society, Irish political organization. It was founded at Belfast in 1791 by Theobald Wolfe Tone . Disgruntled by the use of English patronage to control Irish politics, the organization aimed at legislative reform
..... Click the link for more information. after the 1798 rebellion. He opposed the parliamentary union (1800) of Ireland with England, but refused to support acts of open rebellion. Subsequently he sat in the privy council of the United Kingdom. His daughter, Sarah, was in love with Robert Emmet Emmet, Robert, 1778–1803, Irish nationalist and revolutionary. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, but left in 1798 because of his nationalist sympathies.
..... Click the link for more information. , who was captured and hanged when he came to Dublin to visit her.