Conclusion: The Cult of Tone
Conclusion: The Cult of Tone
This chapter discusses the history of the emergence of the cult of Theobald Wolfe Tone. It explains that it was Thomas Davis and his circle of Young Irelanders in the Nation newspaper which launched the Tone cult in the 1840s and popularised details of his life and this made Tone's autobiography The Life of William Wolfe Tone a standard reading for generations of nationalist leaders. This chapter also considers views that Tone was a strange icon for twentieth-century Catholic Ireland for his efforts to portray Irish nationalism and republicanism as non-sectarian.
Keywords: Theobald Wolfe Tone, Tone cult, Thomas Davis, Nation, The Life of William Wolfe Tone, nationalist leaders, Catholic Ireland, Irish nationalism, republicanism
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