William O’Brien

Irish politician
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Born:
October 2, 1852, Mallow, County Cork, Ireland
Died:
February 25, 1928, London, England (aged 75)

William O’Brien (born October 2, 1852, Mallow, County Cork, Ireland—died February 25, 1928, London, England) was an Irish journalist and politician who was for several years second only to Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–91) among Irish Nationalist leaders. He was perhaps most important for his “plan of campaign” (1886), by which Irish tenant farmers would withhold all rent payments from landlords who refused to lower their rents and would pay the money instead into a mutual defense fund on which evicted tenants could draw. A journalist from 1869, O’Brien was appointed editor of the Irish Land League’s weekly United Ireland by ...(100 of 327 words)