William Smith O'Brien (1803-1864), Young Irelander in Kilmainham Gaol

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Engraver Henry O'Neill , Irish, 1798-1880

After Leon Gluckman , Irish, fl.1843-1867

Title

MediumLithograph

Dimensions

Sheet: 45.6 x 35.5 cm

Image: 27.5 x 21.8 cm

Credit LinePurchased, 1901

Object numberNGI.10064

DescriptionThis lithograph was copied from a daguerreotype made by the inventor and photographer Professor Gluckman in 1844. Depicted here is the Protestant aristocrat William Smith O'Brien, a staunch nationalist who joined Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association in 1843. During the Famine he obstructed the business of parliament to demand food for the starving Irish. He was a leader of the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 and was subsequently arrested and transported to Tasmania.