Wolfe Tone

And it describes the rebellion that year of the United Irishmen.

Theobald Wolfe turned Lord Edward Fitzgerald.

Some revolutions are revolutions manquées.

Some revolutions trahi.

You know, that's the flavour of it.

It's the idea of this civil service department in Fitzwilliam Square trying to figure out solutions to this intractable problem that Pádraig Pearce, Wolfe Tone and centuries of martyrs couldn't figure out.

For sure,

isn't the anthem very easy? Doesn't everybody love Ireland's call? LAUGHTER

Right.

And their leadership included people like Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who we mentioned, and Wolfe Tone.

Yep.

He was another famous rebel.

virtuous rebel who is brought low by British betrayal of some sort.

In Cyclops, Bloom and the Citizen argue about Emmett, quote from Cyclops,

And the citizen and Bloom having an argument about the point that brothers Shears and Wolfe tone beyond on Arbor Hill and Emmett and die for your country.

The Tommy Moore touch about Sarah Curran and she's far from the land.

And so was that the one that, a wolf tone?

Wolfe Tone was involved in the 1788 rebellion.

He

was kind of the first historical Irish figure to say, you know, let's gather arms and stop this shit.

We had to destroy men who not only were noble, but looked noble.

They were men like Wolfe Tone, a statesman in the grand style, who was not suffered to found a state, and Robert Emmet, lover of his land and of a woman in whose very appearance men saw something of the eagle grace of the young Napoleon.

But he was luckier than the young Napoleon, for he has remained young.

He was hanged, not before he had uttered one of those phrases that are the hinges of history.

James III, his son, the real Charles III, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and his brother Henry IX, who had become a cardinal, the Cardinal Duke of York.

In fact, I think Napoleon wanted to make him the King of Ireland, but Wolfe Tone said no.

But how wonderful it was these people who had inspired so much loyalty in the Irish and who never forgot the loyalty of the Irish Catholics.

Wonderful just being able to walk past that and bless the tombstone.

The men of 1916, they were all about unity and bringing people together from all sides of the political spectrum.

Wolfe Tone himself was, you know, united.

He was a, a, a Protestant man.

He was a Church of Ireland man, you know? So it's, it's, it's, uh, the national anthem, it, it accommodates everyone.