Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Key Person; Wolfe Tone
- Early Life
- Born in Dublin
- Protestant
- Barrister
- Admirer of French Revolution
- 1791 Writes "An argument on behalf of Irish Catholics"
- Wants freedom for all Irish people
- United Irishmen
- Founding member in Belfast 1791
- Napper Tandy & McCracken
- Second branch In Dublin
- Aims
- Unite Irish & reform parliment
- Penal laws
- Catholic
Emancipation
- Reduce English Power
- Use peaceful methods
- 1794
Declared
illegal
- War with France
- French Spy
- William Jackson
- Tone escapes
- America
- France
- 1796 Bantry
Bay
- UI now a secret, oath bound
organisation
- Tone gets military aid
- 15,000 French troops
- Gen Hoache
- Storms
- British reaction
- Yeomenary
- Gen Lake
- Pitch Capping & Half
hanging
- Ulster & Leinster
- Capture & Death
- Returned to France
- 1798 returned to
Ireland
- L. Swilly
- 3,000 men
- Captured straight away
- Sentenced to
hang
- Suicide
- Father of Irish
Republicianism