Famous O'Briens in History
| JAMES ("BRONTERRE') O'BRIEN - (1805-1864) Chartist |
| Born inn Co. Longford; educated at Edgeworthstown school, TCD, and Gray's Inn, London. Joined the Chartist movement and wrote revolutionary articles for the periodical press, using the pen name Bronterre. In April 1840 he was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for sedditious speeches. On his release in September 1841 he quarrelled bitterly with Feargus O'Conner, another Irish Chartist leader, and opposed his land scheme. The movement began to decline after 1848, and he then made a precarious living by lecturing at the John Street Institute and the Eclectic Institute in Soho, London. Died in London in great poverty on 23 December 1864. |
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