Theobald Wolfe Tone or Wolfe Tone (20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), was a leading Irish

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 revolutionary figure and one of the founding members of the United Irishmen and is regarded as the father of Irish Republicanism

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. He was captured by British forces

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 at Lough Swilly

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 in Donegal

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 and taken prisoner. Before he was to be executed, Wolfe Tone attempted suicide and subsequently died from his wounds eight days after the attempt, thus avoiding being hanged as an alleged traitor to the British Crown for his involvement in the 1798 Irish Rebellion.
Theobald was born in Dublin, the son of a Church of Ireland

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 coach-maker, Peter Tone, who had a farm near Sallins

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, County Kildare

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He was baptised as Theobald Wolfe Tone in honour of his godfather

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, Theobald Wolfe of Blackhall, County Kildare

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, a first cousin of Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden

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