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By the late 1700s, many Irish people were deeply frustrated by their colonial status and limited representation in the British parliament. Inspired by the American and French revolutions, in 1798, the United Irishmen made a concerted effort to drive through a fully-fledged anti-colonial movement and rose up in an armed rebellion against British rule.
Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763 – 1798) was born in Dublin, Ireland. After studying law at Trinity College, Dublin, he became a barrister. In 1791, Tone founded the Society of the United Irishmen with Thomas Russell and Napper Tandy amongst others. The United Irishmen were a revolutionary group of Protestant and Catholic radicals who sought an end to British rule and an independent Ireland. They saw the only way of achieving this was to overthrow the establishment, as had recently happened in America and France.
The authorities watched the growth of the United Irishmen with increasing concern. On war being declared against France in 1793, they were declared illegal and they went underground. In 1796, Tone travelled to Paris in the hope of persuading France to support their cause, where he briefly became an officer in the French military. But, fighting on multiple fronts, the French could only offer small raids to support the Irish. De
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The Wolfe Tones
Irish rebel music band
This article is about the Irish rebel band. For similar sounding terms, see Wolf tone (disambiguation). For the revolutionary leader and leader of the 1798 rebellion which the band is named after, see Wolfe Tone.
The Wolfe Tones are an Irish rebel music band that incorporate Irish traditional music in their songs. Formed in 1963, they take their name from Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double meaning of a wolf tone; a sound that can affect instruments in the string family of the orchestra.[1][2]
History
[edit]1963–1964: Formation
[edit]The origins of the group date back to August 1963, where three neighbouring children from the Dublin suburb of Inchicore, Brian Warfield, Noel Nagle, and Liam Courtney, had been musical friends from childhood. In August 1964, Brian's brother Derek Warfield joined the band, and in November 1964 Tommy Byrne replaced Courtney, creating the band's most recognizable line-up, which would last for nearly 37 years until January 2001.[3]
1964–2001
[edit]In 1995, Derek Warfield released a solo studio album entitled Legacy as he was still eligible to record under his own name. With Derek on vocals and mandolin, the musi
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On This Day: Irish rebellious Theobald Writer Tone sentenced to dying in 1798
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