Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — WILLIAM O’BRIEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILLIAM O’BRIEN.

The Brave Irish Editor Who Has Been ‘’Stirring Up the Animals” in Canada. William O’Brien, the Irish editor to whom the Canadian mobs have lately been devoting themselves, is a man under forty years of age. He was born in the town of Mallow, and is the last of a family of which all the other members died of consumption. In person he is slight and delicate, with reddish hair and pale complexion. He received a college education,

and became a reporter on the Freeman's Journal. Attention was first drawn to him through his descriptions of scenes in the south and west of Ireland daring the times of famine in 1880. Some of his journeying along the coast and among the islands was accomplished at considerable personal peril. His reports were sharply drawn, and obtained fame for their author. When Parnell and his associates established United Ireland they made Mr. O’Brien its editor. It has been said that the Irish leaders wanted a paper less conservative in the support of the home-rule cause than the Freeman’s Journal and the Nation, and that they rightly judged that such a paper would be Srovided bv Mr. O'Brien. He was aggressive, erce, and denunciatory. This was in the time of the not over-tolerant Forster, and it was not long before United Ireland was suppressed- Its presses were seized, its employes locked up, and Mr. O’Brien was imprisoned for six mouths in Kilma’uham jail.