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Revision as of 18:50, 3 May 2006 by Damac (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Wolfe Tone Weekly (1937–1939) was an Irish republican newspaper, edited by Brian O'Higgins.
It first appeared in September 1937. Unlike its republican predecessor, An Phoblacht (edited by Peadar O'Donnell), the Wolfe Tone Weekly was devoid of any radical social content. O'Higgins, who was assisted by Easter Rising veteran Joe Clarke, was a social conservative whose ideological emphasis was on Gaelic revivalism.
The Wolfe Tone Weekly generally endeavoured to promote the policies of the then Republican Movement. Its contributors numbered people like Jimmy Steele, at the time serving seven years in Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast, and Brendan Behan. After the beginning of the IRA Sabotage Campaign in English cities in January 1939, the Wolfe Tone Weekly continued to appear, but was finally suppressed in September, following the introduction of internment without trial in Éire.
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