We are standing at the corner of St. Stephen’s Green, a park which dates from the seventeenth century, and indeed, we have an eighteenth-century view of the park in the Malton book that we saw earlier.
Here, in front of a curved wall, is a statue of Wolfe Tone. He was a leader in the rebellion, or Rising, of 1798. The history of this milestone in Ireland’s history is well represented by primary sources in the Hesburgh Library’s 1798 Collection.
Newspapers and pamphlets from that era tell us what Wolfe Tone and others were saying and thinking. The 1798 Collection includes also various accounts of the Rising and of its aftermath.
The Volunteer’s Journal, or Irish Herald (1784).
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