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==In popular culture== Several [[Gaelic Athletic Association]] clubs in Ireland are named in honour of Wolfe Tone. These include, in [[Kildare GAA|Kildare]], [[Wolfe Tones GAA]]; in [[Armagh GAA|Armagh]], [[Wolfe Tone GAC, Derrymacash]]; in [[Derry GAA|Derry]], [[Bellaghy GAA|Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAC]]; in [[Meath GAA|Meath]], [[Wolfe Tones GAA]], and in [[Tyrone GAA|Tyrone]], [[Drumquin Wolfe Tones GAC]] and [[Kildress Wolfe Tones GAC]]. In North America, there is the [[Chicago Wolfe Tones GFC]] in Illinois, and the Edmonton Wolfe Tones in Alberta, Canada. In [[Antrim GAA|Antrim]], the [[Greencastle Wolfe Tones GAC]] is based in the Greencastle district of [[Belfast|North Belfast]], bordering [[Cavehill]] where members of the United Irishmen took their oaths. In 1963, [[Brian Warfield]], [[Noel Nagle]], Tommy Byrne, and [[Derek Warfield]] formed [[The Wolfe Tones]], an Irish republican band. They play [[Irish rebel music]] and have courted some controversy with songs celebrating the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-08-17 |title=Wolfe Tones frontman responds to criticism over IRA chants at Feile gig: 'We're entitled to our culture' |language=en-GB |work=BelfastTelegraph.co.uk |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/wolfe-tones-frontman-responds-to-criticism-over-ira-chants-at-feile-gig-were-entitled-to-our-culture/41918274.html |access-date=2023-12-31 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-01 |title=Wolfe Tones singer says it's 'ridiculous' Leinster Rugby issued apology for playing 'up the RA' |url=https://www.sundayworld.com/news/irish-news/wolfe-tones-singer-says-its-ridiculous-leinster-rugby-issued-apology-for-playing-up-the-ra/1082395811.html |access-date=2023-12-31 |website=SundayWorld.com |language=en}}</ref> In 1998, Tone, played by the actor [[Adrian Dunbar]], was the protagonist in an [[RTÉ|RTE]] four-part television movie, ''The Officer From France.''<ref>{{Citation |last=Barry |first=Tony |title=The Officer from France |date=1998-11-19 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408050/ |type=Drama |access-date=2024-01-01 |others=Adrian Dunbar, Jennifer O'Dea, David Herlihy |publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)}}</ref> The bicentennial year also saw publication of ''Belmont Castle: or, Suffering Sensibility'' "by Theobald Wolfe Tone & divers hands".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Tone |first1=Theobald Wolfe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emdbAAAAMAAJ |title=Belmont Castle, Or, Suffering Sensibility |last2=Radcliff |first2=John |last3=Jebb |first3=Richard |date=1998 |publisher=Lilliput Press |isbn=978-1-901866-06-3 |language=en}}</ref> Edited by Marion Deane, it is an epistolary novel that Tone wrote with two friends, [[John Radcliff (Irish judge)|John Radcliff]] and [[Richard Jebb (barrister)|Richard Jebb]], in 1790, manuscripts of which were found in his possession when he was arrested in 1798. It is described as "an elaborate [[roman à clef]], satirizing the lives of several prominent figures of the Anglo-Irish establishment and redressing a painful love affair [with Lady [[Elizabeth Vesey]]] from Tone’s past".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Belmont Castle by Theobald Wolfe Tone |url=https://www.lilliputpress.ie/product/belmont-castle-or-suffering-sensibility |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=The Lilliput Press |language=en-US}}</ref>
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