Wolfe Tone Bridge
Busy stone road bridge over the Corrib, marked by a cast-iron plaque in green Irish lettering.
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This guide to the Wolfe Tone Bridge in Galway starts at a small green-and-white plaque on its south parapet and the man whose name it carries. It reaches back to the autumn of 1798, to a French warship in Lough Swilly, a breakfast in Letterkenny, and a court-martial in Dublin that tried Theobald Wolfe Tone for treason. You will hear what he asked of the officers judging him, and about the barrister who took up his case. Best heard standing at the plaque, with the Corrib running beneath you.
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