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June 20, 2019

Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-1798)

Happy birthday to Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone, leader of the 1798 Irish Rebellion and the Father of Irish Republicanism. Wolfe Tone was captured at Letterkenny in late 1798 and died under unclear circumstances in a Dublin jail 2 weeks later. He was 35.

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Posted by JD Hull at June 20, 2019 09:00 AM

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