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
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.
Lucius O'Brien, 13th Baron Inchiquin, known as Sir Lucius O'Brien, 5th Baronet from 1837 to 1855, was an Irish politician and nobleman. He is remembered respectfully in County Clare for his relief wor
Sir Lucius O'Brien painted about 1840 by Stephen Catterson Smith
Sir Lucius O'Brien with his second wife Louisa Finucane