This article is about the Irish revolutionary leader associated with the rebellion in Ireland of 1798. For other uses, see Wolf tone (disambiguation).
Wolfe Tone
Portrait in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Born
Theobald Wolfe Tone
(1763-06-20)20 June 1763
Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland
Died
19 November 1798(1798-11-19) (aged 35)
Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland
Burial place
Bodenstown Graveyard, Sallins, County Kildare, Ireland
Education
Trinity College Dublin
King's Inns
Agent(s)
Society of United Irishmen, Catholic Committee and Convention
Spouse
Matilda Tone
(m. 1785)
Military career
Allegiance
United Irishmen French Republic
Battles/wars
Battle of Tory Island
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Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone (Irish: Bhulbh Teón;[1] 20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), was a revolutionary exponent of Irish independence and is an iconic figure in Irish republicanism. Convinced that, so long as his fellow Protestants feared to make common cause with the Catholic majority, the British Crown would continue to govern Ireland in the interest of England and of its client aristocracy, in 1791 Tone helped form the Society of United Irishmen. Although received in the company of a Catholic delegation by the King and his ministers in London, Tone, with other United Irish leaders, despaired of constitutional reform. Fuelled by the popular grievances of rents, tithes and taxes, and driven by martial-law repression, the society developed as an insurrectionary movement. When, in the early summer of 1798, it broke into open rebellion, Tone was in exile soliciting assistance from the French Republic. In October 1798, on his second attempt to land in Ireland with French troops and supplies, he was taken prisoner. Sentenced to be hanged, he died from a reportedly self-inflicted wound.
Since the mid-nineteenth century, his name has been invoked, and his legacy disputed, by different factions of Irish Republicanism. These have held annual, but separate, commemorations at his graveside in Bodenstown, County Kildare.
^"Cartlann Téacsanna". corpas.ria.ie. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
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