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She met Robert Emmet through her brother Richard, a fellow student at Trinity College, Dublin.
However, her father considered Emmet unsuitable as a husband, and their courtship was conducted through letters and clandestine meetings. Notable is a letter from Robert to Sarah. Robert and Sarah were secretly engaged in 1803.
When her father discovered that they were engaged, he disowned Curran and then treated her so harshly that she had to take refuge with friends in Cork.
After leading an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803, Emmet was tried and executed for high treason on September 20, 1803.