The song Far Away in Australia sung by the Irish ballad group The Wolfe Tones portrays the sorrow of two young Irish lovers who are separated when the male youth is forced to make his living far away in Australia, leaving his girl behind.

Many Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Ireland are named in honour of Wolfe Tone ; for example Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAC, Wolfe Tones CLG, County Meath and Wolfe Tones Na Sionna, County Clare.

In 1963 Brian Warfield, Noel Nagle, Tommy Byrne, and Derek Warfield formed The Wolfe Tones, an Irish rebel music band deeply rooted in Irish traditional music.

The song was subsequently recorded by many singers and bands in Ireland and abroad, including the Wolfe Tones, Liam Clancy and the Flying Column.

* The Wolfe Tones on their first album, Let the People Sing ( 1973 )

He lampooned the Wolfe Tones ' song " A Nation Once Again " by singing of a dog who saves his Irish Republican Army ( I. R. A.

* Tribute to Admiral William Brown, The Wolfe Tones

Dhónaill Mhig Eoghain, Derrytrasna ), St Mary's GAC ( Aghagallon ), St Michael's GAC ( Magheralin ), St Paul's GAC ( Na Páirceanna Imeartha ), St Peter's GAC ( Páirc Naomh Peadar ) and Wolfe Tones GAC ( Derrymacash ).

* Irish rebel music band The Wolfe Tones recorded a song about the Catalpa incident called " The Fenians ' Escape ".

However, the most successful genres have been rock, popular and traditional fusion, with performers such as U2, Enya, Westlife, Boyzone, Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore, Rory Gallagher, Horslips, Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats, Clannad, Stiff Little Fingers, Altan, Frank Patterson, The Corrs, The Dubliners, The Chieftains, The Bothy Band, De Dannan, The Divine Comedy, Josef Locke, The Irish Tenors, Van Morrison, Therapy ?, The Saw Doctors, Planxty, The Wolfe Tones, Snow Patrol, The Cranberries, In Tua Nua, The Undertones, Ash, B * Witched, Nadine Coyle, The Hothouse Flowers, The Script, Two Door Cinema Club, Something Happens, The Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem, Dana, Mundy, Sinéad O ' Connor, Paul Brady, Christy Moore, Dónal Lunny, Val Doonican, Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Ruby Murray, Peter Cunnah ( of D: Ream ), Daniel O ' Donnell, Bridie Gallagher, Brendan Bowyer, Gilbert O ' Sullivan, Mary Black, Sir James Galway, Johnny Logan, Bill Whelan ( of Riverdance fame ), Damien Rice, Phil Coulter, Glen Hansard, and Celtic Woman achieving success nationally and internationally.

It has been recorded by many Irish singers and groups, notably John McCormack, The Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners, The Wolfe Tones in 1972, ( a group with Republican leanings ), the Poxy Boggards, and The Irish Tenors ( John McDermott, Ronan Tynan, Anthony Kearns ) and Sean Conway for a 2007 single.

In 2002, the Wolfe Tones ' 1972 rendition of " A Nation Once Again " was voted the world's most popular song according to a BBC World Service global poll of listeners, ahead of " Vande Mataram ", the national song of India.

The Wolfe Tones ' version of A Nation Once Again was voted the number one song in the world by BBC World Service listeners in 2002 .< ref >

* 1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.

* 1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.

The British Army found itself fighting Irish rebels, both Protestant and Catholic, primarily in Ulster and Leinster ( Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen ) in the 1798 rebellion.

* 1791 – Charles Wolfe, Irish poet ( d. 1823 )

* 1798 – Wolfe Tone, Irish republican ( b. 1763 )

* Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish republican

* February 21 – Charles Wolfe, Irish poet ( b. 1791 )

* October 12 – Battle of Tory Island: A British Royal Navy squadron under Sir John Borlase Warren prevents French Republican ships commanded by Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart landing reinforcements for the Society of United Irishmen on the Donegal coast ; Irish leader Wolfe Tone is captured and later dies of wounds.

* November 19 – Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish republican ( b. 1737 )

* June 20 – Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot ( d. 1798 )

The famous Irish patriot and martyr Wolfe Tone briefly lived here.

Reformist politicians such as Henry Grattan ( 1746 – 1820 ), Wolfe Tone ( 1763 – 1798 ), Robert Emmet ( 1778 – 1803 ), Sir John Gray ( 1815-1875 ), and Charles Stewart Parnell ( 1846 – 1891 ), were also Protestant nationalists, and in large measure led and defined Irish nationalism.

* Matilda ( or Mathilda ) Tone, widow of Irish rebel Wolfe Tone

Theobald Wolfe Tone or Wolfe Tone ( 20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798 ), was a leading Irish revolutionary figure and one of the founding members of the United Irishmen and is regarded as the father of Irish Republicanism.

Before he was to be executed, Wolfe Tone attempted suicide and subsequently died from his wounds eight days after the attempt, thus avoiding being hanged as a convicted traitor to the Irish Crown for his involvement in the 1798 Irish Rebellion.

It was only when it was obvious that this was unattainable by constitutional methods that the majority of the members adopted the more uncompromising opinions which Wolfe Tone held from the first, and conspired to establish an Irish republic by armed rebellion.

Burke and Grattan were anxious that provision should be made for the education of Irish Roman Catholic priests in Ireland, to preserve them from the contagion of Jacobinism in France ; Wolfe Tone, " with an incomparably juster forecast ", as Lecky observes, " advocated the same measure for exactly opposite reasons.

The Wolfe Tones are an Irish rebel music band who incorporate elements of Irish traditional music in their songs.

They are named after the Irish rebel and patriot Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double entendre that a wolf tone is a spurious sound that can affect instruments of the violin family.

The kids prove to be difficult to handle, even with the help of nanny Helga ( Carol Kane ): Zoe and Seth rebel against Wolfe's authority ; Lulu is obsessed with the new houseguest ; the pet duck, Gary, resents Wolfe ; and Helga finally quits when one of Zoe and Seth's pranks go wrong.

An Irish rebel song, written by Brian Warfield of the Wolfe Tones, bears his name.

As a result the paper's coverage changed radically from an uncritical and rather reverential showbiz-oriented paper to something intended to be smarter, hipper, more cynical and funnier than any mainstream British music paper had previously been ( an approach influenced mainly by writers such as Tom Wolfe and Lester Bangs ).

** Jelly's Last Jam – Book by George C. Wolfe, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, music by Jelly Roll Morton

** Bring in ' da Noise, Bring in ' da Funk – Book by Reg E. Gaines ; lyrics by Reg E. Gaines, George C. Wolfe, and Ann Duquesnay ; music by Daryl Waters, Zane Mark, and Ann Duquesnay

** The Wild Party – Book by Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe, music / lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa

Written by Johnny Hawksworth and entitled " Up to Date ", it was not specially commissioned for the show, rather provided via the Production music company De Wolfe Music and most recently, made available in 1996 by independent record company Studio2Stereo on their CD " The Sound Gallery Volume Two ".

De Wolfe provided stock music for film soundtracks.

Tom Wolfe describes the LSD-influenced music of The Doors, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, Iron Butterfly, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane, Ultimate Spinach, Blue Cheer, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Great Society, Stone Garden and the Grateful Dead as " acid rock " in his book about Ken Kesey and the Acid Tests, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

It also uses many musical cues from the original Dawn of the Dead that were originally culled by George A. Romero from the De Wolfe production music library.

With Derek on vocals and mandolin, the music on this album was performed by a new band, although he was still in fact touring with The Wolfe Tones.

The music used in the film's opening sequence is Ice Floe 9 by Pierre Arvay, from the De Wolfe Music library.

Along with L. Wolfe Gilbert, Nacio wrote the music for the popular children's Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy which first aired in 1949.

The theme music for the television show was written by veteran songwriters Nacio Herb Brown ( music ) and L. Wolfe Gilbert ( lyrics ).

Psychedelic Wunderbaum was indeed a psychedelic mix, with apparent inspirations from rock, noise, and cartoon music, and with lyrics taken from Aleister Crowley and Tom Wolfe.

Wolfe's verses have been set to music by a number of composers, including Gustav Holst in his 12 Humbert Wolfe Settings, Op.

* The Irish music group Wolfe Tones ' 1993 album Across the Broad Atlantic contains a tune called " Goodbye Mick " with the farcical line " For the ship will play with pitch and toss -- for half a dozen farthings, I'll roll me bundle on me back, and walk to Castle Gardens.

Daugherty ’ s composition class at Yale included student composers who would later become unique and important voices in contemporary music: Bang on a Can composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe ; along with Robert Beaser, Aaron Jay Kernis, Scott Lindroth, and Betty Olivero.

** Bring in ' da Noise, Bring in ' da Funk – Daryl Waters and Zane Mark ( music ), Ann Duquesnay ( music & lyrics ), George C. Wolfe and Reg E. Gaines ( lyrics )