Robert Emmet Statue - St Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland - Exact Replicas on Waymarking.com

There are three copies of this statue. This one in Dublin and two are in the United States along with the original that is located in Washington DC.. The sculptor was Jerome O'Connor.

This website tells us about Jerome Connor:

Jerome Connor, born in Annascaul, County Kerry, Ireland, emigrated to the United States as a teen-ager. In 1910, he established a sculpture studio in Washington, D.C. Connor based his likeness of Emmet on sketches done at the trial and from Emmet's death mask. The 7-foot-tall sculpture was cast at the Washington Navy Yard. Connor's sculpture of Emmet proved to be so popular that a copy was cast and placed in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in 1919; in 1922 the U.S. Congress authorized a replica as a gift to the National Gallery of Ireland which now stands in St. Stephen's Green in Dublin.

Wikipedia has an article about the statues that tells us:

Robert Emmet is a bronze statue of Robert Emmet by Jerome Connor. There are four examples: Massachusetts Avenue and 24th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.; St Stephen's Green, Dublin; Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; Emmetsburg, Iowa.

The San Francisco example was dedicated on July 20, 1919. The Washington example was cast in 1916, and was dedicated on June 28, 1917. It was rededicated on April 22, 1966. The statue was a gift to the Smithsonian Institution on loan to the National Park Service.

The slightly larger than life-size statue, cast in bronze, shows Emmet standing in dress of the period. His hands are down by his sides and his bare head is thrust forward.

There is an inscription on the statue's plinth that reads:

Robert Emmet
1778 - 1803

Beneath the inscription is a plaque that advises:

Presented to the People
of Ireland
by
the Robert Emmet
Statue Committee
of the
United States of America
April 13, 1966

Francis J Kane, Chairman
Ambassador Scott McLeod
Devlin W Dormer, Esq
Hon Michael J Kirwan, MC
Hon Thomas P O'Neil MC
Hon Daniel J Flood MC
Hon John F Fogarty MC
H Mike Devlin Esq

The Encyclopaedia Britannica website tells us about Robert Emmet:

Robert Emmet, (born 1778, Dublin—died Sept. 20, 1803, Dublin), Irish nationalist leader who inspired the abortive rising of 1803, remembered as a romantic hero of Irish lost causes.

Like his elder brother Thomas, Robert Emmet became involved with the United Irishmen and from 1800 to 1802 was on the Continent with their exiled leaders, who, with French support, were planning an insurrection against English rule. Back in Ireland in October 1802, he hid at his father’s house near Milltown while pikes and other crude weapons were collected and stored in Dublin. In 1803 Emmet’s hand was forced by an explosion at one of his secret arms depots, and he called for a rising on July 23. The ill-planned insurrection ended in utter confusion. The Wicklow contingent never arrived; the Kildare men retired thinking the rising had been postponed; while the men at Broadstairs waited vainly for the signal. Wearing a green and white uniform, Emmet marched with a small band against Dublin Castle. On the way they encountered the lord chief justice, Lord Kilwarden, and his nephew, pulled them from their carriage, and murdered them. Realizing the cause was lost, Emmet escaped and hid in the Wicklow Mountains. He then moved to Harold’s Cross to be near his fiancée, Sarah Curran, with whom he hoped to escape to America. He was captured on August 25, tried for treason, and hanged on Sept. 20, 1803.

Thomas Moore’s songs, “She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps” and “Oh breathe not the name” were inspired by Emmet’s love affair with Curran.