1763
Wolfe Tone, Irish rebel leader (died 1798)
Wolfe Tone, Irish rebel leader (died 1798)
Wolfe Tone, Irish rebel leader (died 1798)
Wolfe Tone
Irish revolutionary figure (1763–1798)
- Born
- 1763
Theobald Wolfe Tone, 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.