2-791-470 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. Smith O'Brien M.P., 1844. Portrait of Irish politician William Smith O'Brien, who '...votes for the extinction of tithes and the ballot. He is the second son of the late Sir Edward O'Brien, Baronet, of Dromoland, Clare; he was born in 1803. He represents, or rather did represent, the County of Limerick, and was in the commission of the peace as a magistrate, till he identified himself with the Repeal agitation, when he was visited, with many other gentlemen, with a supersedeas. His name is found no more in the debates, and must now be sought in the Irish correspondence of the morning journals'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.