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The Irish Rebellion of 1798

In Our Time: History

CHAPTER

Katrina Kennedy, Wolftown

Wolftown was born into a church of Ireland family that's comfortable, but not particularly wealthy. He often plays truant from school to go and watch these military reviews of troops in Dublin. His father blocks him joining the British Army as he is enthralled by this "military pump and spectacle" Wolftown made his first foray into politics when he tried to establish a military colony in the Sandwood Islands - present day Hawaii.

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