Wolfe Tone
Second Edition
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98) was one of the founders of the Irish Republican national movement, and his political ideas and the circumstances of his life and early death have become powerful political weapons in the hands of later nationalists. Today his name still arouses strong emotions, and he is hailed as the first prophet of an independent Ireland. Tracing Tone’s life from his upbringing as a member of the Protestant elite to his exile, trial, and suicide, this new edition of the awardwinning biography brings the book up to date with new scholarship and fresh historical insights.
Acknowledgements
A Tribute to Kay Dickason
Introduction
Part I: Early Life (1763–1790)
1. Family and Education
2. Sentimental Schooling
3. Middle Temple
4. Gentleman of the Law
Part II: Politics (1790–1791)
5. Whig
6. Radical
Part III: Across the Religious Divide (1791)
7. Anti-Popery and the Rise of Presbyterian Radicalism
8. Argument on Behalf of the Catholics
9. Belfast and the Society of United Irishmen
Part IV: Agent to the Catholics (1792–1793)
10. Uniting the Sects
11. Catholic Agent
12. Mission to the North
13. Ascendancy on the Attack
14. Catholic Convention
15. Hopes Dashed
Part V: War Crisis (1793)
16. Witch Hunt
17. The United Irish Society in Disarray
Part VI: Revolutionary (1794–1795)
18. Treason
19. Emergence of a Revolutionary
20. Exile in America
Part VII: Mission to France (1796–1797)
21. Republican ‘Ambassador’ in Paris
22. Irish Invasion Plans
23. Adjutant-General
24. Bantry Bay
25. Roving Mission in Northern Europe
26. Demise in Hoche
Part VIII: Final Days (1797–1798)
27. Mission in Decline
28. Crisis
29. Trial and Death
30. Aftermath
Conclusion: The Cult of the Tone
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
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