Theobald Wolfe Tone was an Irish political thinker and revolutionary who helped found the Society of United Irishmen in 1791. He believed that Ireland should be independent of British rule and that Protestants and Catholics should unite in a common struggle for liberty. Seeking French support for an Irish uprising, he helped lead a French expedition to Ireland in 1796 and later returned with a French force in 1798. Captured after the Battle of Donegal, he was sentenced to death and died in prison in Dublin. Remembered as the Father of Irish Republicanism, Wolfe Tone left a lasting mark on Ireland’s struggle for independence.