Theobold Wolfe Tone, born in Dublin, the son of a Protestant coach-builder, studied law at Trinity College Dublin and qualified as a barrister from King's Inns at the age of 26 and attended the Inns of Court in London. A member of the prominent Protestant Ascendancy, Tone was heavily influenced by the radicalism of the American and French revolutionaries. Tone argued that the only way to counteract British influence in Irish affairs was by parliamentary reform and that the only way to achieve this was if Irish Catholics and the Protestant radicals united in a reform programme that included Catholic ...
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