Sarah Curran

However, this latter statement is contradicted by local historians in Sarah Curran's birth town where it is said that her father did not cast her adrift and that, instead, he sent her to friends in Cork to ensure she was well looked after at this difficult time.

[3] In Cork, after Emmet's death, Curran met Captain Henry Sturgeon, a nephew of the Marquis of Rockingham, and married him in November 1805.

[1][4] Washington Irving, one of America's greatest early writers, devoted "The Broken Heart" in his magnum opus The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

[6] She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing, But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.

In her family's home town of Newmarket, County Cork, there is a statue of Sarah Curran standing across the road from the graveyard where she is buried.

Sarah Curran is mentioned within the song lyrics....... Boston boasts of Bunker Hill; brave men fought at Gettysville.