A SEMESTER IN IRELAND
The
Joseph W. McCarthy Scholarship
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Each spring, the Robert Emmet Society awards a scholarship to an outstanding North Central Michigan College student for a fall semester of study in Galway, Ireland. The Society was founded in the early 1990s to honor, Robert Emmet, the namesake of Emmet County, Michigan and to make area residents more aware of Emmet's brief, but courageous life and his enduring legacy as a champion of freedom and democracy. The scholarship award is the Society's major activity each year. The Irish patriot's name was given to Emmet county by the Michigan legislature in the mid-19th century to honor his revolutionary leadership that sought to overthrow the British rulers of Ireland in 1798 and again in 1803. Captured by the British in the wake of the rising's failure in 1803, he was quickly tried and then hanged and beheaded publicly in a major square of Dublin. His eloquent speech from the dock in defense of his actions and the cause of Irish freedom insured that his name and actions would be long remembered in Irish history and folklore. |
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