Theobald Wolfe Tone

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 .

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...

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...

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...