Wolfe Tone
Subtitle: Second Edition
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9781846318078
Subjects: Tone, theobald wolfe, 1763-1798; Ireland, biography; Revolutionaries, ireland; Republicanism; Nationalism, ireland; Ireland, history; Ireland, politics and government
Description: Theobald Wolfe Tone was the founder of Irish Republican nationalism. As such his political ideas and the circumstances of his life and death have become powerful political weapons in the hands of later nationalists. Today his name still arouses strong passions and he is hailed as the first prophet of an independent Ireland.