Wolfe Tone
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Key facts
- Born
- Theobald Wolfe Tone , ( 1763-06-20 ) 20 June 1763, Dublin , Ireland
- Died
- 19 November 1798 (1798-11-19) (aged 35), Dublin, Ireland
- Resting place
- Bodenstown Graveyard
- Education
- Trinity College Dublin ( BA ) King's Inns
- Agents
- Society of United Irishmen Catholic Committee and Convention
- Spouse
- Matilda Tone ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1785 )
- Allegiance
- United Irishmen , French Republic
- Conflicts
- French Revolutionary Wars Irish Rebellion of 1798 Battle of Tory Island ‡‡
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Theobald
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Ireland
- Place of birth
- Dublin
- Place of death
- Dublin
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Educated at
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Irish Rebellion of 1798
- Military rank
- adjutant general
- Image
- Portrait of Theobald Wolfe Tone (4672711).jpg
- Residence
- Dublin
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- date of death
- 1798-11-19
- date of birth
- 1763-06-20
- manner of death
- Suicide
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- Commons category
- Wolfe Tone
- Commons gallery
- Theobald Wolfe Tone
- member of
- Society of United Irishmen
- name in native language
- Theobald Wolfe Tone
- cause of death
- exsanguination
- writing language
- English language
- allegiance
- Society of United Irishmen
- start of work period
- 1791-00-00
- birth name
- Theobald Wolfe Tone
- P12749
- Flero
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Encyclopedic overview
Theobald Wolfe Tone (Irish: Bhulbh Teón; 20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), posthumously known as Wolfe Tone, was a revolutionary exponent of Irish independence and is an iconic figure for Irish republicanism. Convinced that if his fellow Protestants feared to make common cause with the Catholic majority, the British Crown would continue to govern Ireland in the English interest, in 1791 he helped form the Society of United Irishmen.
Fuelled by the popular grievances of rents, tithes and taxes, driven by martial-law repression, and despairing of reform, 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.
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