The O'Brien clan

Young Ireland leader William Smith O'Brien was an M.P. for Limerick in the British Parliament in the late 1840s. In the early states of the Famine (also called the Great Hunger) O'Brien begged, besieged, implored his fellow M.P.s in the Commons to provide relief for the starving people of Ireland, but his impassione pleas fell on deaf ears. This having failed, the Limerick M.P. resorted to physical force, as mentioned in the article. Like so many of Ireland's great leaders and patriots, William Smith O'Brien was a Protestant. He was laid to rest in a mausoleum in a Church of Ireland cemetery nead Ardagh in West Limerick.

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I'M AN O'BRIEN, IRISH ND PROUD OF IT!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOOOOOO :) I <3 IRELAND 4EVA

The O'Brien Clan of Torrance, California will hold a CLAN gathering in the area July 16th 2011 - Are you part of this Clan ?? Email; pobrien1@socal.rr.com - GOD BLESS

Needs to be updated again; Soledad and Miles are no longer with CNN, at least in the capacity covered, and Conan's on cable. What's with the links? At least two lead to blank pages; they don't even say the url is obsolete.

The O'Briens from all over the world will be gathering April 18-25, 2014 at Clontarf Castle Hotel in Dublin to commemorate the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf. Unveiling of a statue of Brian Boru, a symposium, Dublin Castle banquet, and a battle reenactment are being included in the program. O'Briain Abu!