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MR. WILLIAM O’BRIEN London, February 26. The death is announced of Mr William O’Brien, the Irish Nationalist leader, at the age of 75.—A.P.A. and “Sun.” William O’Brien was better known in the earlier stages of his career, when he suffered prosecution and imprisonment for more than two years owing to his advocacy of the Irish Nationalist cause. He sat in the House of Commons since 1883 until he withdrew from Parliament with Mr. Tim Healey and others in 1918. Tn his later years he was always an advocate of a policy of conciliation between Ireland and England. He wrote “An Olive Branch in Ireland and Its History,” 1910; “Evening Memories,” 1920; “The Irish Revolution and How It Came About,” 1923; and “The Parnell of Real Life,” 1926.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 128, 28 February 1928, Page 9
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128OBITUARY Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 128, 28 February 1928, Page 9
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