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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. Internationally the Chicago Wolfe Tones GFC in Chicago, IL USA, Boston and Detroit are named in his honour.
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.
A minor character named Wolfe Tone O'Rooney appears in Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day.
A cast of Tone's death mask is open to public viewing in the vaults of St. Michan's Church, Dublin.
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