The death of Theobald WolfeTone—suicide or murder?
By Paddy Cullivan While researching my show ‘The Murder of Wolfe Tone’, I noticed an error in Georgina Laragy’s article ‘Wolfe Tone and the culture of suicide in eighteenth-century Ireland’ (HI 21.6, Nov./Dec. 2013, pp 20–2). She writes: ‘According to a London newspaper, the Courier, Major Sandys, who was in charge of Tone’s trial, was … Read more