Exile in America
Exile in America
This chapter focuses on Theobald Wolfe Tone's exile in America. It discusses his observations about the contests between aristocracy and democracy and suggests that this experienced sharpened his sense of Irishness and anti-Englishness, and helped define his republicanism. This chapter also explains the financial difficulties experience by Tone's family in America and explains how this unhappiness intensified Tone's attachment to his friends in Belfast and Dublin.
Keywords: Theobald Wolfe Tone, exile, America, aristocracy, democracy, Irishness, anti-Englishness, republicanism
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