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Wolfe Tone

1763 - 1798

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Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone (Irish: Bhulbh Teón; 20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), was a revolutionary exponent of Irish independence and is an iconic figure in Irish republicanism. Convinced that, so long as his fellow Protestants feared to make common cause with the Catholic majority, the British Crown would continue to govern Ireland in the English interest, in 1791 he helped form the Society of United Irishmen. Fuelled by the popular grievances of rents, tithes and taxes, driven by martial-law repression, and despairing of reform, the society developed as an insurrectionary movement. When, in the early summer of 1798, it broke into open rebellion, Tone was in exile soliciting assistance from the French Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfe Tone is the 551st most popular social activist (down from 531st in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 237th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Irish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Wolfe Tone ranks 551 out of 840. Before him are John Peters Humphrey, Raisa Aronova, Hebe de Bonafini, Fazu Aliyeva, Bagha Jatin, and Oswaldo Payá. After him are Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Roger Stone, Sakine Cansız, Marie Stritt, Aslı Erdoğan, and Jerry Rubin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Wolfe Tone ranks 40. Before him are Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Dmitry Senyavin, Pierre Adet, Johann Baptist Allgaier, Johann Gottfried Seume, and William Cobbett. After him are János Batsányi, Jens Esmark, and Charles Bulfinch. Among people deceased in 1798, Wolfe Tone ranks 27. Before him are François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Laurynas Gucevičius, Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda, John Fitch, Thomas Pennant, and Karl Wilhelm Ramler.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Wolfe Tone ranks 255 out of 549. Before him are John Joly (1857), Agnes Mary Clerke (1842), W. T. Cosgrave (1880), Finnian of Clonard (470), Brian Kerr (1953), and Kevin Doyle (1983). After him are Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet (1737), Maeve Binchy (1939), Rex Ingram (1892), William McGonagall (1825), Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779), and Alison Doody (1966).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ireland

Among social activists born in Ireland, Wolfe Tone ranks 3. Before him are Mary Harris Jones (1837), and William Howard Russell (1820). After him are Eoin O'Duffy (1890), Robert Emmet (1778), and William Smith O'Brien (1803).

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