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14 de jun. de 2024 · William Smith O’Brien (born Oct. 17, 1803, Dromoland, County Clare, Ire.—died June 18, 1864, Bangor, Caernarvonshire, Wales) was an Irish patriot who was a leader of the literary-political Young Ireland movement along with Thomas Osborne Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy, and John Dillon.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
8 de jun. de 2024 · As early as March 1846, he warned a deaf House of Commons that 100,000 Irish people were starving “in the midst of plenty”. He had a particular affinity with the Young Ireland vision of a united nation, however, and the differences with O’Connell ended in a split.
Hace 5 días · He was to be joined by other leaders, such as William Smith O’Brien and Thomas Francis Meagher who had both been arrested after Ballingary, John Blake Dillon escaped to France, as did three of the younger members, James Stephens, John O’Mahony and Michael Doheny.
27 de may. de 2024 · They include surgeon John Gray, rebel William Smith O’Brien and Fr Theobald Mathew, known as the apostle of temperance campaigner for his anti-alcohol stance. She said: “His superpowers were getting people off drink. He got three million people in Ireland to give up alcohol.
- Barbara Mccarthy
12 de jun. de 2024 · O'BRIEN' in gilt capitals, 18-22.8cm high (3) Footnotes: William Smith O'Brien (1803-1864) was an Irish nationalist Member of Parliament and a leader of the Young Ireland movement. He was convicted of sedition and sentenced to death for his part in the Young Irelander 'Famine Rebellion' of 1848, but his sentence was later commuted to ...
Hace 5 días · William Smith O'Brien, who had previously worked to achieve compromise between O'Connell and The Nation group, was also concerned, and claimed that he feared these resolutions were an attempt to exclude the Young Irelanders from the Association altogether.
13 de jun. de 2024 · No nobler and braver man has appeared in modern Irish history than William Smith O’Brien, but at the head of an insurrectionary movement he was incompetent. There was none of his lieutenants who, in his position, could not have made the insurrection to some extent formidable.
