Bold Emmett Irelands Martyr (1915)

This play is enacted during the stormy days when Robert Emmett tried vainly to free Ireland Con Daly loves Nora Doyle who lives with her mother in a little cottage amid the hills and dales of old Erin In a cave nearby the men who would free Ireland are making arms and ammunition Robert Emmett visits them and then goes into the enemys camp disguised as a flute player and returns safely The constabulary visits a family and a riot starts and as a result Major Kirk is shot Desperately wounded he is taken to the home of Mrs Doyle Nora and Con nurse him back to health