Saara Philpot

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  • Saar: a river in Germany
  • Saar: (Irish: Sadhbh) the wife of Finn MacCool and mother of Oisin, a moon goddess
  • Sara Philpot Curran: beloved of Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet (1778 – 1803) His attempt to hide near her eventualy cost him his life, and his parting letter to her made him into a romantic hero. They appear as characters in Dion Bouccicault's highly innacurate Robert Emmet (1884).