Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3
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- ISBN 9780198208808
- Weight: 1081g
- Dimensions: 165 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 06 Dec 2007
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army, is intended to comprehend all his writings and largely to supersede the two-volume Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone . . . written by himself that was edited by his son William, and published at Washington in 1826. It consists mainly of Tone's correspondence, diaries, autobiography, pamphlets, public addresses, and miscellaneous memoranda (both personal and public); it is based on the original MSS if extant or the most reliable printed sources.
Tone's participation in Irish politics in the early 1790s and his presence on the periphery of the ruling circle in revolutionary France from February 1796 to September 1798 would be sufficient to make his writings a major historical source. The literary quality of his writings, diaries, and autobiography enhances their importance. The unique quality of Tone's writings is that they are the production of a gifted and convivial young Irishman who moved widely in intellectual and political circles.
This volume - France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly, and the Death of Tone - completes the edition, following the last part of Tone's life, until his death following the abortive Irish uprising of 1798. It includes addenda, corrigenda, an iconography, a bibliography, and a complete index to all three volumes.
T. W. Moody died in 1984
R. B. McDowell, fellow emeritus of Trinity College, Dublin, is the author of several books on aspects of Ireland in the eighteenth century.
C. J. Woods is on the staff of the Royal Irish Academy, working on the Dictionary of Irish Biography, and is an occasional lecturer in history at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
