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William Smith O'Brien was an Irish nationalist Member of Parliament and a leader of the Young Ireland movement. He also encouraged the use of the Irish language. He was convicted of sedition for his part in the Young Irelander "Famine Rebellion" of 1848 but his sentence of death was commuted to deportation to Van Diemen's Land. In 1854, he was released on the condition of exile from Ireland, and he lived in Brussels for two years. In 1856 Smith O'Brien was pardoned and returned to Ireland, but he was never active again in politics. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. October 1803 – 18. June 1864
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Famous William Smith O'Brien Quotes

“I believe as firmly as I believe any other historical truth—that no nation ever suffered so much from another nation as the Irish have suffered from the English—or for so long a time.”

William Smith O'Brien

14 January letter to John Martin: 14, Correspondence between John Martin and William Smith O'Brien relative to a French invasion, 1861 https://books.google.com/books?id=uioenbWx30MC&pg=PA14,

“A people desirous to preserve their freedom cannot be too jealous in watching the encroachment of a centralizing spirit.”

William Smith O'Brien

p. 20 https://books.google.com/books?id=4VUBAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA20 <br class="br">Principles of Government: Or Meditations in Exile (1856), Chapter II. On Centralized and Local Administration

“History supplies us with examples of almost every possible modification of government.”

William Smith O'Brien

p. 16 https://books.google.com/books?id=4VUBAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA16 <br class="br">Principles of Government: Or Meditations in Exile (1856), Chapter II. On Centralized and Local Administration

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