William O'Brien was an Irish nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher, author and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of
Birthplace plaque, Thomas Davis Street, Mallow, County Cork
Land War manifesto
Bloody Sunday (1887)
William O'Brien, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien and their staff at Mallow Cottage, Clooneen, Westport, County Mayo
All-for-Ireland League
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The All-for-Ireland League was an Irish, Munster-based political party. Founded by William O'Brien MP, it generated a new national movement to achieve agreement between the different parties concerned
William O'Brien (Irish nationalist politician)
…The bill eventually passed into law as Birrell's Land Purchase Act 1909, but fell far short in its financial provisions. As an outcome of the "Baton Convention" O'Brien felt himself again driven from the party. He foresaw that the IPP, undermined by the AOH, was on a fatal radical path which would frustrate…
All-for-Ireland League group portrait of five of its Independent Members of Parliament, in the "Cork Free Press" 30 July 1910. These are: Patrick Guiney (North Cork), James Gilhooly (West Cork), Maurice Healy (North East Cork), D. D. Sheehan (Mid Cork) and Eugene Crean (South East Cork). The other MPs elected in January 1910 were: William O'Brien (Cork city), John O'Donnell (South Mayo) and Timothy Michael Healy (North Louth). Elected in December 1910 was
William O'Brien addressing the "Baton Convention" with Dillon, Redmond and Devlin looking on indifferently.
Announcement of the League's Inaugural Meeting 31 March 1910
League's membership card endorsed: All for Ireland here are we, All for Ireland's liberty; To right, to raise, to set her free, Our Native Land for ever. T.D.S.