- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- List of Illustrations and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- A Tribute to Kay Dickason
- Introduction
- One Family and Education
- Two Sentimental Schooling
- Three Middle Temple
- Four Gentleman of the Law
- Five Whig
- Six Radical
- Seven Anti-Popery and the Rise of Presbyterian Radicalism
- Eight Argument on Behalf of the Catholics
- Nine Belfast and the Society of United Irishmen
- Ten Uniting the Sects
- Eleven Catholic Agent
- Twelve Mission to the North
- Thirteen Ascendancy on the Attack
- Fourteen Catholic Convention
- Fifteen Hopes Dashed
- Sixteen Witch Hunt
- Seventeen The United Irish Society in Disarray
- Eighteen Treason
- Nineteen Emergence of a Revolutionary
- Twenty Exile in America
- Twenty-One Republican ‘Ambassador’ in Paris
- Twenty-Two Irish Invasion Plans
- Twenty-Three Adjutant-General
- Twenty-Four Bantry Bay
- Twenty-Five Roving Mission in Northern Europe
- Twenty-Six Demise of Hoche
- Twenty-Seven Mission in Decline
- Twenty-Eight Crisis
- Twenty-Nine Trial and Death
- Thirty Aftermath
- Conclusion: The Cult of Tone
- Manuscript Sources
- Printed Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index
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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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- List of Illustrations and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- A Tribute to Kay Dickason
- Introduction
- One Family and Education
- Two Sentimental Schooling
- Three Middle Temple
- Four Gentleman of the Law
- Five Whig
- Six Radical
- Seven Anti-Popery and the Rise of Presbyterian Radicalism
- Eight Argument on Behalf of the Catholics
- Nine Belfast and the Society of United Irishmen
- Ten Uniting the Sects
- Eleven Catholic Agent
- Twelve Mission to the North
- Thirteen Ascendancy on the Attack
- Fourteen Catholic Convention
- Fifteen Hopes Dashed
- Sixteen Witch Hunt
- Seventeen The United Irish Society in Disarray
- Eighteen Treason
- Nineteen Emergence of a Revolutionary
- Twenty Exile in America
- Twenty-One Republican ‘Ambassador’ in Paris
- Twenty-Two Irish Invasion Plans
- Twenty-Three Adjutant-General
- Twenty-Four Bantry Bay
- Twenty-Five Roving Mission in Northern Europe
- Twenty-Six Demise of Hoche
- Twenty-Seven Mission in Decline
- Twenty-Eight Crisis
- Twenty-Nine Trial and Death
- Thirty Aftermath
- Conclusion: The Cult of Tone
- Manuscript Sources
- Printed Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index
