OBITUARY
MR WILLIAM O’BRIEN,
Press Association—By Telegraph -Copyright
LONDON, February 20. (Received February 27, at 10.40 a.m.)
The death is announced of Mr William O’Brien, Irish Nationalist. —A. and N.Z. and ‘Sim’ Cable.
[William O’Brien was born in 1852. He was a reporter on the Cork ‘Daily Herald ’ from 1875 to 1880. Ho founded United Ireland in 1880, and was prosecuted nine times for political offences, and spent more than two years in prison. He was elected to Parliament for his native town ns a Nationalist in 1883. He was a member of the Land Conference of 1903, and over since had been an advocate of the policy of conciliation for tho union of all classes and creeds in Ireland, with a view to home rule by consent. Ho withdrew from Parliament with Mr Healy and the rest of his all-for-1 reland colleagues at the genera! election in 1918. He was tho author of several books on Ireland.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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158OBITUARY Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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