...break the connection with England, the never failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country - these were my objects....dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter- these were my means....

...break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — these were my objects....dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter — these were my means...

...break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — these were my objects....substitute the common name of Irishmen in place of the denomination of Protestant, Catholic, and Dissenter — these were my means. WOLFE TONE Life springs...

...values of tolerance. Wolfe Tone could hardly have been clearer on this point when he stated his ambition to 'abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant. Catholic and Dissenter'. The French Revolutionary...

...Theobald Wolfe Tone was forming a new organisation, The Society of United Irishmen, whose aim v\ as "to unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of past dissensions and to subst tute the common name of Irishmen in place of tl e denominations of Protestant,...

...connexion with England, the never failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independance of my country — these were my objects. To unite...dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter — these were my means....

...declaration of 1796 that his object was 'to break the connection with England' and that his means were 'to unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish...dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman, in the place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter' remained unrealized...

...Tone explained that, as the means towards furthering the cause of reform in Ireland, his objective was 'To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissentions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman, in place of the denominations of Protestant,...

...that there should be casualties. Are we here in Ireland any nearer to that eighteenth-century dream "to unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denomination of Protestant,...

...break the connection with England, the never failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country - these were my objects....dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denomination of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means....