send thirty thousand arms to be landed at Kilkeel". (An attempt had been made at gun-running to the Down coast by the French in 1798) In 1803 in London, Russell's brother, Captain John Russell (c.1748–c.1812), was also arrested in connection with the Emmet rising. He was released for lack of evidence, but the aspiring writer was associated with political radicals in the capital and may have had some role. Selected writing A Letter to the People of Ireland, on the present situation of the country. Belfast: Northern Star Office, 1796 Journals and Memoirs of Thomas Russell, 1791-5, Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1991, ISBN 10: 0716524821 With William Sampson: Review of the Lion of Old England; or Democracy Confounded, Belfast: 1794. A faithful report of the trial of Hurdy-Gurdy, tried and convicted of a seditious libel in the court of King's Bench . . .,, (originally serialised in the Northern Star), Dublin: Bernard Dornin, 1806 References 1767 births 1803 deaths People from County Cork Irish Anglicans Irish soldiers United Irishmen Protestant Irish nationalists Executed Irish people 19th-century executions by the United Kingdom Executed revolutionaries People executed by the United Kingdom by hanging