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Richard Barry O'Brien (7 March 1847 – 17 March 1918) was a lawyer, historian, Irish journalist and prolific writer on Irish subjects.〔Dictionary of Irish Biography〕 He was born at Kilrush, County Clare. He studied law at the Catholic University, Dublin, after which he went to London. He was a founder-member there of the Irish Literary Society and also joined the London Gaelic League. Politically he was loyal to, but not uncritical of, Charles Stuart Parnell, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party at Westminster.〔(R. Barry O'Brien at Ricorso )〕 Parnell wished to make him a MP, but he declined, as he preferred to remain focused on writing. He wrote a much-discussed biography of Parnell in 1898.〔 O'Brien was a political insider and a committed Home Ruler and the biography throws light on the activities of Home Rule MPs and their links to the Fenian Movement. ==Select works== * ''The Irish Land Question and English Public Opinion'' (1879) * ''Fifty Years of Irish History'' (2 vols., 1883–85) * ''Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland'' (1883) * ''Biography of Parnell'' (1898) * ''Thomas Drummond: life and letters'' (1899) * ''The Life of Lord Russell of Killowen'' (London, 1902) * ''Ireland (1905)'' * ''The autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763-1798'' (Ed., 1910) * ''John Bright, a Monograph, with a preface by Augustine Birrell'' (London, 1910) * ''The Home-Ruler's Manual'' * ''A Hundred Years of Irish History'' (1912) * ''Parliamentary History of the Irish Land Question'' * ''Irish Memories'' (1918) * ''Dublin Castle and the Irish People'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Barry O'Brien」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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