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That's Just How It Was's Blog – March 2020 Archive (3)
Butterflies / Fire / Mythology / Legend / Folklore from Ireland
As a child running around the garden’s and fields in Wolfe Tone Square where I was raised, playing with friends on the Bray Head that rose above the Town of Bray m I was always fascinated by Butterflies and their many different colours of beautiful wings. Trying to catch them in jam jars, to have a good look at them. I say ‘trying to catch’ because that…
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Matilda Tone 1769-1849. Wife of Wolfe Tone , Mother, Rebel
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Martha “Matilda “ Tone [ wife of Theobald Wolfe Tone] was born in Dublin to Catherine Witherington [née Fanning]. Records show that her father was listed as a Woolen Draper, a Wine Merchant and a merchant between the years 1768 - 1793, some…
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Theobald Wolfe Tone: 1763 -1998 Considered to the the Father of Republicanism
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Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in 1763. Descendant from French Protestant family who fled Religious Prosecution in the mid-16th century. One branch of the Tone family settled in Dublin. Peter Tone, the son of one…
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