Richard Barry O'Brien

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Richard Barry O'Brien (7 March 1847 – 17 March 1918) was an historian, Irish journalist and prolific writer on Irish subjects.[1][2]

He was born at Kilrush, County Clare. He studied law at the Catholic University, Dublin, after which he went to London. He was a founder-member of the Irish Literary Society and also joined the London Gaelic League.

Politically he was loyal to Parnell.[3] Parnell wished to make him a MP, but he declined, as he preferred to remain focused on writing. He wrote a much-discussed biography of Parnell in 1898.[2]

Select works

  • The Irish Land Question and English Public Opinion (1879)
  • Fifty Years of Irish History (2 vols., 1883–85)
  • Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland (1883)
  • Biography of Parnell (1898)
  • Thomas Drummond: life and letters (1899)
  • The Life of Lord Russell of Killowen (London, 1902)
  • Ireland (1905)
  • The autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763-1798 (Ed., 1910)
  • John Bright, a Monograph, with a preface by Augustine Birrell (London, 1910)
  • The Home-Ruler's Manual
  • A Hundred Years of Irish History (1912)
  • Parliamentary History of the Irish Land Question
  • Irish Memories (1918)
  • Dublin Castle and the Irish People

References

  1. ↑ Dictionary of Irish Biography
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Richard Barry O'Brien". Personal Notes (Otago). Otago Witness. 26 January 1899. p. 58. Retrieved 2013-04-23. 
  3. ↑ R. Barry O'Brien at Ricorso

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