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O'Brien, William Smith (1803–64), nationalist politician. Born into a Protestant gentry family, O'Brien inherited estates at Cahermoyle, Co. Limerick, and was educated at Harrow and Cambridge. He was elected MP for Ennis in 1828 as a Tory, but supported Catholic emancipation and gravitated towards independent liberalism. In parliament he advocated assisted emigration, education reform, and an Irish poor law, but became convinced that justice for Ireland could not be attained under the Union. He joined the Repeal Association in October 1843 and acted as leader during O'Connell's imprisonment in 1844. O'Brien saw himself as a ‘Middle‐Aged Irelander’, mediating between O'Connell and the Young Ireland group, but felt obliged to secede with the latter in 1846. O'Brien hoped to win the patriotic gentry to repeal, and opposed social radicalism. Having reluctantly put himself at the head of the rebellion of 1848, he was convicted of high treason and transported to Tasmania. He was pardoned in 1854 and returned to Ireland in 1856, playing no further role in politics except to denounce Fenianism.

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