Theobald Wolfe Tone
(1763-98)
An Irish patriot convicted of treason. He died mysteriously in prison in November 1798.
The memorial consists of a ten-foot figure of Wolfe Tone backed by a wall of rough granite columns of varying width and rising to 16 feet in height.
Behind the granite columns is a group of bronze figures that symbolize the past unhappy subjugation of the Irish people. This group represents the cause for which Tone sacrificed his life. He was thirty-five years old.
The memorial was unveiled by President de Valera in 1967.
Marker is at the intersection of St. Stephen's Green (National Road 11) and Hume Street, on the left when traveling north on St. Stephen's Green.
Courtesy hmdb.org
