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00:00So Matilda was originally Martha, Martha Witherington, she's born in 1769, her parents own a drapery
00:08shop on Grafton Street.
00:10She's from that kind of middle class arena, both Tone and his pals are walking up Grafton
00:15Street one time and he spots her and he immediately falls in love, finds out that her brother
00:19is in Trinity and invades his way into the family home and that's how they get to meet
00:24each other.
00:25It's kind of love at first sight and well you know the old cliche, behind every man
00:29is a great woman, but I don't see Matilda and Theobald like this, I see them very much
00:34as equals.
00:36I found their humor to be very attractive, the great love they shared, even though there's
00:42an ocean that separates them, you know she's buried in New York, he's in Kildare, it's
00:46almost an indication of what their life was like, but you know she eventually brought
00:51them back together, even in death, by publishing that book.