| Caesar Litton Falkiner - Ireland - 1902 - 418 pages
...House of Commons, 1797. To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our...independence of my country, these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish all past dissensions, and to substitute the common... | |
| Ida Ashworth Taylor - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1903 - 412 pages
...execrable Government," he wrote, " to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of our past dissensions, and to substitute... | |
| Ida Ashworth Taylor - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1903 - 402 pages
...execrable Government," he wrote, " to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of our past dissensions, and to substitute... | |
| Richard Barry O'Brien - Ireland - 1904 - 266 pages
...execrable Government," he says, "to break the connection with England, the never- failing source of our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of our past dissensions, and to substitute... | |
| Arthur Hassall - Great Britain - 1908 - 284 pages
...tyranny of our execrable government, " to break the connexion with England, the never" failing source of our political evils, and to assert " the independence of my country, these were my " objects." These words, written by Tone, express with great candour the aims which he and his fellow conspirators... | |
| Erskine Childers - Fiction - 1911 - 380 pages
...truth of the case that " to subvert the tyranny of our execrable Government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our...independence of my country — these were my objects." Midway stands Grattan, the defeated and disillusioned " Girondin," as Mr. Fisher aptly calls him,*... | |
| Harry Graham - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 342 pages
...tyranny of our execrable Government (he writes), to break the connection with England, the unfailing source of all our political evils, and to assert the...independence of my country — these were my objects. To unite the people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past divisions, and to substitute the... | |
| Arthur Donald Innes - Great Britain - 1914 - 298 pages
...unvaryingly acted ever since. To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our...independence of my country — these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the ISB II. 17 memory of past dissensions and to substitute... | |
| Robert Mitchell Henry - History - 1920 - 300 pages
...quotation from Wolfe Tone: "To subvert the tyranny of our execrable Government, to break the connection with England, the neverfailing source of all our political...independence of my country — these were my objects." Its policy was explained at length in its editorial: " We believe that free political institutions... | |
| Cecil John Charles Street - Ireland - 1921 - 490 pages
...therefore accept and endorse in 1920 the policy of Wolfe Tone in 1798 :— ' To break the connections with England, the never-failing source of all our...independence of my country, these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all dissentions and to substitute the... | |
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