Wolfe Tone Badge

Theobald Wolfe Tone

The Father Of Irish Republicanism And A Founding Member of the United Irishmen

The Wolfe Tone commemoration at Bodenstown is a key part of the Republican calendar. His grave in Bodenstown became a place of political pilgrimage for generations of Irish Republicans. For most of the past 200 years they have gathered there on the nearest Sunday to Tone’s birthday