William O'Brien (2 October 1852–25 February 1928) was an Irish journalist, writer and politician, particularly associated with campaigns for land reform in Ireland during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

O'Brien was born at Bank Place in Mallow, County Cork, and moved to Cork City as a young man where he worked on the Daily Herald and Freeman's Journal newspapers. Mallow (Mala, Magh Ealla, and other variations in Irish) is the Crossroads of Munster and the administrative capital of north County Cork, in Ireland. ... County Cork (Contae Chorcaí in Irish) is the most southwesterly and the largest of the modern counties of Ireland. ... Cork (Corcaigh in Irish) is the second city of the Republic of Ireland. ...

In 1878, he met Charles Stewart Parnell at a Home Rule meeting and subsequently became editor of the Irish Land League's journal, United Irishman. His association with Parnell and the Irish Parliamentary Party led to him being arrested and imprisoned with him in October 1881, when he helped draft the No Rent Manifesto. 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Charles Stewart Parnell (June 27, 1846 – October 6, 1891) was an Irish political leader and one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland and the United Kingdom; William Ewart Gladstone thought him the most remarkable person he had ever met. ... Devolution or Home rule is the pooling of powers from central government to government at regional or local level. ... The Irish painter Henry Jones Thaddeus enlisted the conscience of the propertied classes with the sentimental realism of La retour du bracconier (The Wounded Poacher), exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1881, at the height of the Irish Land War Irish land League poster dating from the 1880s The Irish... In 1882 Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, formed the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), replacing the Home Rule League, as a parliamentary party with strict rules. ... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1883, he was elected as MP for Mallow and later for Cork and North Cork, but amid the turmoil of Irish politics in the late 19th century was frequently arrested and imprisoned for his support for various Land League protests. 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1887 O'Brien helped organise a rent strike at the estate of Lady Kingston near Mitchelstown, County Cork. On 9 September, after an 8,000-strong demonstration led by John Dillon, three estate tenants were shot dead, and others wounded, by police at the town's courthouse where O'Brien had been brought for trial on charges of incitement. This event became known as the Mitchelstown Massacre. Mitchelstown (Baile Mhistéala in Irish) is an agricultural based town in northeast Cork. ... John Dillon (September 4, 1851 - August 4, 1927) was an Irish nationalist politician. ...

Even in prison, O'Brien continued his protests (refusing to wear prison uniform in 1887, for example); ironically, his imprisonment also inspired protests – notably the 1887 'Bloody Sunday' riots in London. In 1889, he escaped from a courtroom but was sentenced in absentia, eventually serving four months in Clonmel and Galway gaols. 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... For other incidents referred to by this name, see Bloody Sunday. ... Clonmel (Cluain Meala in Irish) is a medium-sized town situated in south County Tipperary, Ireland. ... Galway (official Irish name: Gaillimh) is the only city in the province of Connacht in Ireland and capital of County Galway. ...

While in prison in 1889, O'Brien wrote a novel, a Fenian romance with a land reform theme set in 1860: When We Were Boys (published in 1890 and acclaimed by Bram Stoker, among others). 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Fenian is a term used since the 1860s for an Irish nationalist who espouses or is perceived to espouse violence against British rule, usually by people opposed to their aims. ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Abraham Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847–April 20, 1912) was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. ...

He then travelled to the United States and in 1891 became disillusioned with Parnell's political direction. In 1898, he helped found the United Irish League, trying to bring nationalists and unionists together. As MP for Cork City (elected in 1902), O'Brien campaigned strongly for the Wyndham Land Purchase Act of 1903, which effectively ended landlordism. 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The Irish Nationalist movement began in the 18th century when Theobald Wolfe Tone attempted two uprisings in the 1790s. ... In the context of Irish politics, Unionists are people in Northern Ireland, who wish to see the continuation of the Act of Union 1800, as amended by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, under which Northern Ireland, created in that latter Act, remains part of the United Kingdom of Great... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The City of Wyndham is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ... Absentee landlord is an economic term for a person who owns and rents out a profit-earning property, but does not live within the propertys local economic region. ...

He left the IPP for five years during the 1900s mainly due to differences with the Irish Party's leaders John Redmond and John Dillon over his 1904 alliance with D.D. Sheehan's Irish Land and Labour Association (ILLA), and the implementation and workings of the Wyndham Land Act (1903) and the Labourers (Ireland) Act (1906), both of which he had played a leading role in attaining. He published the Irish People newspaper from 1905-1909. In 1882 Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, formed the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), replacing the Home Rule League, as a parliamentary party with strict rules. ... John Redmond, MP John Edward Redmond (1856 – March 1918) was the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900 to 1918. ... John Dillon (September 4, 1851 - August 4, 1927) was an Irish nationalist politician. ... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... D. D. Sheehan, B.L., MP. D.D. Sheehan MP. (standing centre balcony), addressing a large AfIL meeting in 1910 at Newmarket, Co. ...

In 1909 founded together with D.D. Sheehan MP. as Hon. Secretary and other prominent figures, the All-for-Ireland League (AfIL). Its goal was the establishment of a United Ireland parliament with the consent rather than than by the compulsion of the Protestant minority in Ulster. The AfIL returned eight independent nationalist MPs (O'Brienites) in the December 1910 elections, Tim Healy following in 1911. O'Brien agreed a cooperative understanding with Arthur Griffith's Sinn Féin movement. Publishes the League's official organ, The Cork Free Press from 1910 up until 1916. 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... D. D. Sheehan, B.L., MP. D.D. Sheehan MP. (standing centre balcony), addressing a large AfIL meeting in 1910 at Newmarket, Co. ... A United Ireland is the common demand of Irish nationalists, envisaging that the island of Ireland (currently divided into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) be reunited as a single political entity. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Ulster (Irish: Cúige Uladh, IPA: ) is one of the four provinces of Ireland. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Timothy Michael Healy Timothy Michael Healy, KC (May 17, 1855–March 26, 1931) was one of the most brilliant and most controversial of Irish politicians, with a career that spanned the period from Charles Stewart Parnells leadership of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the 1880s to the foundation of... Arthur Griffith (Árt Ó Gríofa in Irish) (31 March 1871 - 12 August 1922) was the founder and first leader of Sinn Féin. ... The name Sinn Féin (pronounced in English, in Irish), which means ourselves or we ourselves (not as sometimes incorrectly translated, ourselves alone or we alone) has been applied to a series of political movements since 1905 in Ireland, each of which claims or claimed sole descent from the original...

He and his League remained resolutely opposed to the partition of Ireland, its MPs abstaining from voting for the Third Home Rule Act 1914, denouncing it as a "partition deal", after Sir Edward Carson leader of the Ulster Unionist Party forced through an amending partition bill. In 1911, the League proposed Dominion Home Rule as the only viable way to achieve All-Ireland self-government. The Partition of Ireland took place in May 1921. ... The Government of Ireland Act 1914, more generally known as the Third Home Rule Act (or Bill) or the (Irish) Home Rule Act 1914, was an Act of Parliament passed by the British House of Commons in May 1914 which sought to give Ireland internal self_government within the United Kingdom... Edward Carson HMSO image The Right Honourable Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson, PC (February 9, 1854 – October 22, 1935) was a leader of the Irish Unionists, a Barrister and a Judge. ... The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. ...

At the outbreak of World War 1, O'Brien declared himself on the side of the Allies, and stood on recruiting platforms. He stated that if Home Rule was to have a future, it would depend upon the extent to which the National Volunteers, in combination with the Ulster Volunteers, did their part in the firing line on the fields of France. He also encouraged the formation of an Irish Brigade. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... The National Volunteers is the name taken by the group of the Irish Volunteers that sided with Irish Parliamentary Party leader John Redmond after the group split in the wake of the question of the Volunteers role in World War I. While Redmond took no role in the creation of... The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary group. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

In the political climate after the 1916 Easter Rising, he felt unable to continue as a MP and together with the League's members did not contest the general elections in 1918. The All-for-Ireland League put its seats at the disposal of Griffith's Sinn Fein. Against popular opinion, O'Brien later opposed the establishment of a partitioned Irish Free State. He subsequently contented himself with writing, dying at the age of 75. The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca) was a militarily unsuccessful rebellion staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday in April 1916. ... The Irish general election of 1918 was that part of the 1918 United Kingdom general election that took place in Ireland. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Arthur Griffith (Árt Ó Gríofa in Irish) (31 March 1871 - 12 August 1922) was the founder and first leader of Sinn Féin. ... Sinn Féin (in the Irish language ourselves or we ourselves; not as sometimes incorrectly translated, ourselves alone) is an Irish political party. ... The Irish Free State (Irish: Saorstát Éireann) was (1922–1937) the name of the state comprising the 26 of Irelands 32 counties which were separated from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Irish Free State Agreement (or Anglo-Irish Treaty) signed by British and...

His works include

• Irish Ideas (1893)
• A Queen of Men, Grace O'Malley (1898)
• An Olive Branch in Ireland (1910)
• The Downfall of Parliamentarianism (1918)
• Evening Memories (1920)
• The Responsibility for Partition (1921)
• The Irish Revolution (1921)
• Edmund Burke as an Irishman (1924)