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The article explores the youthful patriotism and vigorous activism of Cesca Chenevix Trench based on her letters, sketches, personal papers and diary of the years 1913 to 1916. Also described is how a girl from a leading Anglo-Irish Protestant family, brought up in a vicarage in Kent, adopted the identity of an Irish Irelander and became a staunch nationalist.

Examines the facts and the myths of Irish nationalist hero Robert Emmet. Failure of his rebellion against Great Britain; Role of the Romantic movement in the emergence of Irish nationalism; Depiction of radicalism in his poetry; Influence on the Irish uprising in 1916; Attention paid to the manner of his death.