Robert Emmet Remembrance Day

The Robert Emmet Society, in partnership with the Blissfest Music Organization, presents an annual Robert Emmet Remembrance Day every September in Petoskey, Michigan, the seat of Emmet County. Robert Emmet, the namesake of Emmet County, met his untimely end on Sept. 20, 1803 at the hands of his British captors following the failure of the insurrection that he had planned and led.  Robert Emmet was the last Irish patriot to be hanged, then "drawn and quartered" by the British rulers of Ireland.  After his death, his head was placed on a spike and put on public display.

Each fall, the Society holds a benefit concert as a way of  honoring Emmet's important role in the long struggle to free Ireland from its British oppressors.  It is held in a downtown Petoskey restaurant on, or near, to the date of his execution by the British on Sept. 23, 1803.
 
For more information, call 231.535.2440.