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  Theobald Wolfe Tone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Theobald Wolfe Tone, commonly known as Wolfe Tone (June 20, 1763 - November 19, 1798) was a leading figure in the Irish independence movement and is regarded as the father of Irish republicans.
Tone expressed contempt for the constitution which Grattan had so triumphantly extorted from the British government in 1782; and, himself an Anglican, he urged co-operation between the different religious sects in Ireland as the only means of obtaining complete redress of Irish grievances.
Tone drew up a memorandum for Jackson on the state of Ireland, which he described as ripe for revolution; the memorandum was betrayed to the government by an attorney named Cockayne, to whom Jackson had imprudently disclosed his mission; and in April 1794 Jackson was arrested on a charge of treason.
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 Theobald Wolfe Tone - Bodenstown Graveyard - Kildare, Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wolfe of Blackhall, (in the same parish); and Theobald Wolfe Tone seems to have been named after one of the children of that family to whom he was a foster brother.
Tone's first essay in politics, was a scheme for the advancement of English power in the South Pacific Ocean; the bitter hatred of England which would shape Tone's destiny in later life having not yet manifested itself.
As Wolfe Tone had never held a Commission in the English Army his trial by court martial was blatantly illegal, and his sentence was a travesty of justice.
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 Communist Party of Ireland
THEOBALD WOLFE TONE, the principal political and theoretical leader of the United Irishmen and of the 1798 Rising, was born in Dublin into a middle-class Protestant family.
Tone was now approached by the angry members of the Catholic Committee, which had been established in 1760 by representatives of the small Catholic middle class, whose business and political ambitions were blocked by religious discrimination.
Tone was not easily convinced of the correctness of this policy, despite extracting guarantees that the French would come as liberators and not as conquerors.
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 Wolfe Tone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Theobald Wolfe Tone was a teacher and a lawyer and, although he was a member of the Protestant Ascendency, he was also one of Ireland's greatest patriots.
A revolutionary to the end, Theobald remained true to this dream even after he was captured, as he took his own life to avoid giving the British the satisfaction of executing him.
Tone became a lawyer in 1789, and circumstances along with the great changes taking place in the world apparently inspired him.
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 SAOIRSE32
Its inspiration was a young Dublin lawyer, Theobald Wolfe Tone, who was invited to Ulster by some Presbyterian radicals after publishing a pamphlet entitled An argument on behalf of the Catholics of Ireland.
Tone's association with him was known to the authorities, but they agreed not to take any action against him if he left the country.
Tone accepted this condition but insisted that he should not be required to give evidence against Jackson, and in fact remained openly in Dublin until after Jackson's trial.
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 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tone's potent words at the time echo down the years to us and have inspired Republicans to this day: 'To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country - these were my objects.
Wolfe Tone became the toast of Belfast and was the chief guest at parties in the homes of Henry Joy McCracken and the other leaders.
Wolfe Tone now saw that the time had come to put an end to talking and that nothing short of a social and political revolution as had been accomplished in France would suffice.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Theobald Wolfe Tone
Burke and Grattan were anxious that provision should be made for the education of Irish Roman Catholic priests in Ireland, to preserve them from the contagion of Jacobinism in France; Wolfe Tone, "with an incomparably juster forecast", as Lecky observes, "advocated the same measure for exactly opposite reasons".
He rejoiced that the breaking up of the French schools by the revolution had rendered necessary the foundation of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, which he foresaw would draw the sympathies of the clergy into more democratic channels (he was unaware that the government was financing the college).
He was, however, sentenced to be hanged on 12 November 1798; but he cut his throat with a penknife, and died of the wound several days later.Although Wolfe Tone had none of the attributes of greatness, "he rises", says Lecky, "far above the dreary level of commonplace which Irish conspiracy in general presents.
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 Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Since its initial publication in 1826, the Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, comprising the autobiography as well as a monumental collection of his journals, letters and political writings, has been regarded by historians as an indispensable source for the history of the 1790s, and for the life of Tone himself.
While there have been a number of abridged versions of the 1826 Life as compiled and edited by Tone's son William, this is the first new unabridged edition of the work.
Tone's Life, documenting the drama of his brief career, forms his most enduring legacy.
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 Theobald Wolfe Tone
Tone was in France, and yearned to be in Ireland.
Tone was captured, and scheduled for a quick trial.
At his mock trial in 1798, Tone expounded the initiative of the United Irishmen: "To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country-these were my objects.
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 SEARC'S WEB GUIDE - Theobald Wolfe Tone (1764-1798)
Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in Dublin and educated at TCD.
Tone published a pro-independence pamphlet Hibernicus in 1790 and in 1791 he, together with Thomas Russell and William Drennan, founded The Society of United Irishmen in Belfast.
Tone persuaded the French Directory to send another expedition to Ireland and in September, 1798 a French fleet of 5,000 troops set sail for Ireland commanded by General Hardy with Tone as Chef de Brigade.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Tone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tone, in music, the timbre, or “colour”, of a sound.
The tone quality of a given instrumental or vocal sound is defined by the way the sound is...
Tone, (Theobald) Wolfe (1763-1798), Irish revolutionary, born in Dublin.
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 Tone, (Theobald) Wolfe
Tone aimed to overthrow English rule in Ireland.
Insurrection broke out in Ireland in 1798, but previous failed attempts at a French invasion of Ireland in 1796 and 1797 had reduced the enthusiasm of the French forces, and only small raids on Ireland were made.
Tone was captured in Donegal, and in his trial reaffirmed his hostility to England.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0013223.html   (199 words)

  
 Famous Irish - Theobald Wolfe Tone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The eldest son of a Dublin coach-builder, Tone was born in 1763.
During the 1780's he also served as a tutor, at one point for the children of Richard Martin who would later be known as "Humanity Dick".
A further attempt to send French reinforcements was itself intercepted on October 11th, 1798 and among the captured was Theobald Wolfe Tone himself.
www.irishclans.com /articles/famirish/tonetw.html   (1005 words)

  
 Wolfe Tone --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
In the 18th century the rebel-patriot Theobald Wolfe Tone sought to achieve an independent Ireland with the aid of expeditions from France.
Tone was born in Dublin on June 20, 1763.
Ella Anderson de Wolfe was born in New York City on Dec. 20, 1865, and was educated in Edinburgh.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9277386   (614 words)

  
 Tone, Theobald Wolfe. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He organized several ill-fated expeditions to Ireland, finally joining one intended to aid the 1798 rebellion in Ireland.
The force he accompanied was defeated by an English squadron off Lough Swilly (Donegal), and Tone was captured.
He was court-martialed and convicted of treason, but he committed suicide before his execution could be carried out.
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 United Irishmen
Disgruntled by the use of English patronage to control Irish politics, the organization aimed at legislative reform “founded on the principles of civil, political, and religious liberty.” Yet there was, from the outset, an undercurrent of revolutionary striving toward independence that was encouraged by the progress of the French Revolution.
Tone was exiled and went to France to request aid.
A larger invasion force, led by Tone, was intercepted by the British navy, and Tone was captured.
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 The 1798 Rebellion
Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in Dublin on 20th June 1763.
Returning to Dublin, Wolfe Tone, although a Protestant, was appointed secretary of the Catholic Committee in July 1792.
Wolfe Tone was captured, recognised when he came ashore, and then brougt ht in chains to Dublin.
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 CHAPTER 13   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tone was ‘a rapid moving angular man with something of the eagle in nose and eyes, the face sallow and thin under the close-cropped upstanding hair’.
Tone was so taken by his new friend that he lost no time in introducing him to ‘the little box of a house on the seaside at Irishtown’, where Matilda Tone and her baby girl were staying that summer.
Tone’s services were sought, probably at the suggestion of Russell, to organise the Society, frame its declaration, elaborate its constitution.
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 WOLFE TONE 1798
Theobald Wolfe Tone fut le principal artisan de l'aide française aux soulèvements irlandais de la fin du XIXe siècle : exilé depuis 1794 en France, il n'avait cessé d'intervenir auprès des autorités françaises pour obtenir une aide qui vint tout d'abord en 1796, lorsque 15.000 hommes et 43 navires furent envoyés.
Le discours de Wolfe Tone proposé ici fut prononcé à la fin de son procès en court martiale.
I am aware of the fate which awaits me, and scorn equally the tone of complaint and that of supplication.
www.uhb.fr /Langues/Cei/tone.htm   (962 words)

  
 OUP: Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98: Volume I: Tone's Car
This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army, is intended to comprehend all his writings and largely to supersede the two-volume Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone...
Tone's participation in Irish politics in the early 1790s and his presence on the periphery of the ruling circle in revolutionary France from February 1796 to September 1798 would be sufficient to make his writings a major historical source.
A bibliography of Theobald Wolfe Tone and index to all three volumes are to appear in volume III.
www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-822383-8   (619 words)

  
 Special Collections: Wolfe Tone and Other Prominent United Irishmen
Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone...Written by Himself, and continued by His Son...
In addition to Tone's journal, this edition contains many appendices with Tone's political writings, selections from correspondence between United Irishmen, data on the Catholic Committee, and accounts of his last expedition by his son, William Theobald Wolfe Tone (1791-1828).
Tone and her sons Theobald Wolfe and Matthew.
www.library.villanova.edu /services/depts/speccoll/scwton.htm   (435 words)

  
 OUP: Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98: Volume II: America,
Tone's participation in Irish politics in the early 1790s and his presence on the periphery of the ruling circle in revolutinary France from February 1796 to September 1798 is enough to make his writings a major historical source.
This volume is the second of three volumes and covers Tone's attempt to settle in America, the early days in France, his negotiations with the Directory, his entry into the French army, and the expedition to Bantry Bay.
Preceded by Tone's Career in Ireland to June 1795 (1998), it is to be followed by France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly, and Death of Tone, January 1797 to November 1798.
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 Wolfe Tone
A member of the privileged Protestant Ascendancy, Tone was strongly attracted by the radicalism of the American and French revolutionaries, maintaining close links with the United Irish Society, which he had helped found in Belfast in October 1791.
Their plans were betrayed by an informer, resulting in Tone's exile to America in 1795.
In Paris, on July 12th, 1796, Tone met the man who was to prove his strongest ally in this great adventure, Louis Lazare Hoche.
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 Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I was acquainted with none of them; however I wrote to them all, and sent copies of his essay, telling them it was written by Tone’s only son, now eighteen years old, and requesting their advice as to his future destination in life, as his time in the Imperial Lyceum was drawing to a close.
They said, ‘Tone’s son was their adopted child; that French honour was committed to take care of and advance him, but the army was the only line for him, the only one in which they could be of service to him.
I considered only that Tone’s son was confided to me; but, in that moment, nature resumed her rights.
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 Special Collections: The United Irishmen
A society formed in Belfast and Dublin in 1791 by Theobald Wolfe Tone to agitate for parliamentary reform and equal religious rights.
Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-1798) first published this pamphlet in August 1791 under the signature of AA Northern Wig.
It demonstrated that there was a need for a reform of the Parliament, and also a need for the creation of a close alliance between the Catholics and the Presbyterians.
www.library.villanova.edu /services/depts/speccoll/scuimen.htm   (485 words)

  
 William Theobald Wolfe Tone
TONE, William Theobald Wolfe, soldier, born in Dublin, Ireland, 29 April, 1791; died in New York city, 10 October, 1828.
He was the eldest son of the Irish patriot and French general, Theobald Wolfe Tone.
He was appointed 2d lieutenant of light artillery on 12 July, 1820, and was transferred to the 1st artillery on 1 June, 1821, but resigned on 31 December, 1826, and married a daughter of William Sampson.
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 Search Results for "Tone"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pitch is determined by the frequency of the vibration, measured in cycles per second; intensity...
...Pitch is an attribute of every musical tone; the fundamental, or first harmonic, of any tone is perceived as its pitch.
It was founded at Belfast in 1791 by Theobald Wolfe Tone.
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