Theobald Wolfe Tone
Standard Name: Tone, Theobald Wolfe
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Frances Wright | FW
's close friend Robina Millar
had written letters of introduction for her and her sister, and once in New York they made the acquaintance of the conservative Charles Wilkes
, nephew of the radical... |
Textual Production | Susanna Watts | It is uncertain whether this was the first edition, for it was often reprinted with no date at all. Besides a Dublin edition of 1789, and London ones of 1794 and 1799, a cheap, undated... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Medbh McGuckian | This is an anniversary volume, looking back two hundred years to a watershed year in Irish history: a year of assassinations, martial law, the Rebellion or Rising that began in late May, the virtual wiping... |
Travel | Maud Gonne | MG
travelled around the USA on a fund-raising tour, seeking money for the Amnesty Association
(whose object was the liberation of jailed Fenians) and for a memorial to Wolfe Tone
. Tone killed himself in... |
Timeline
October 1791
Wolfe Tone
, on a three-week visit to Belfast, founded a United Irish Society
or club of United Irishmen.
10 July 1793
In the Irish House of Lords
Lord Chancellor Fitzgibbon
accused Wolfe Tone
(on the basis of a letter written two years previously) of favouring Irish separatism.
22 August 1798
A French invasion force landed at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland: joined by some Irish reinforcements, it won a victory at Castlebar but was finally defeated near Granard, County Longford, by British troops. The...
21 October 1803
Irish patriot Thomas Russell
was hanged by the British authorities at Downpatrick prison.