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Wolfe Tone (revolutionary leader in Ireland)
- Tone was angry that the Irish
Parliament only admitted Protestants
- he felt religion shouldn't divide Irishmen
- he wrote a pamphlet called "An
Argument On Behalf Of The Catholics
Of Ireland"
- a Catholic comittee is Catholic Emancipation
- Tone was the comittees secretary
- Samuel Neilson, Henry Joy McCracken, Thomas
Russell and Tone became the founders of the
Society of United Irishmen
- their aims were to free Ireland
from Brittish control
- wolfe tones aims were to see political reform instead of violent revolution
- Catholics were given the vote
- mant disappointed Catholics then joined the United Irishmen
believing stronger action was needed for reform and to end
Brittish control over Ireland