Wolfe Tone
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![One of the inscribed flagstones on the steps leading to the grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone](/Images/godic/202502/21/One_of_the_inscribed_flagstones_on_the_steps_leading_to_the_grave5409.jpg")
![Statue of Wolfe Tone, Bantry, County Cork](/Images/godic/202502/21/Wolfe_Tone_sculpture_Bantry5409.jpg")
![In End of the Irish Invasion ; — or – the Destruction of the French Armada (1797), James Gillray caricatured the failure of Hoche's expedition.](/Images/godic/202502/21/Irish-Invasion-Gillray5409.jpeg")
Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone (20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), was a leading Irish revolutionary figure and one of the founding members of the United Irishmen, and is regarded as the father of Irish republicanism and leader of the 1798 Irish Rebellion.