The Irish band is named after Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the 1798 rebellion. The child of a wealthy Protestant merchant, his family sent him off to Trinity College in Dublin where he began hanging out with a group of chaps who came to call themselves the United Irishmen. The next thing you know young Wolfie was leading an insurrection against the Crown. Kids these days!

The Brits never got the chance to hang Wolfe Tone. He managed to do himself in by slitting his own throat with a pen knife while awaiting his trip to the gallows.

--- Steve