William Smith O'Brien
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William Smith O'Brien was an Irish republican who, in the course of Ireland's Great Famine, had been converted to the cause of national independence while sitting as a unionist member of the United Ki
1864 in Ireland
…20 May – John George Bowes, businessman and political figure in Canada East (b. c.1812). 18 June – William Smith O'Brien, nationalist (born 1803). 4 July – Thomas Colley Grattan, writer (born 1792…
Portrait by George Francis Mulvany
"Young Ireland in Business for Himself", John Leech's satirical 1846 cartoon for Punch magazine showing Smith O'Brien offering "pretty little pistols for pretty little children" after the withdrawal of the Young Irelanders from the Repeal Association
Removal of Smith O'Brien under sentence of death
Daguerreotype of Thomas Francis Meagher, William Smith O'Brien with soldier and jailer in Kilmainhaim Gaol, 1848.