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Wolfe Tone did not take his own life in jail. He was murdered – and I know who did it – The Irish Times
National Library of Ireland - #OnThisDay 19 November 1798 – Irish revolutionary Theobald Wolfe Tone died at the age of 35 in Provost's Prison, Dublin, not far from where he was born.
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