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The William Smith O'Brien Petition will be a popular title for those tracing their Irish and English ancestry. This petition was signed by over 80,000 people from every part of Ireland and from Liverpool, Manchester, and other parts of England, between 1848 and 1849. It is a unique historical and genealogical source from the period of the Famine. Following the failure of the 1848 rising, O'Brien was sentenced to death, and this petition was collected to gain clemency for the rebel leader. As a consequence his sentence was commuted and O'Brien was transported to Australia for life. This CD-ROM was launched in Dublin in March 2001 by the Australian Ambassador to Ireland. It will also be of special interest to the Australian community, given that O'Brien had a important influence on the movement for Federation. The author, Ruth Lawler, is also an Australian living in Ireland, and the CD contains a preface by the Australian Ambassador to Ireland. It contains: - Over 80,000 names, addresses and occupations
- Over 10,000 names from England and
- Over 70,000 names from Ireland
- Scanned images of all 166 petitions
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System Requirements
- Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT 4.0, XP
- Minimum Pentium 90Mhz
- 16MB RAM
- NOTE: it will NOT work on Vista or Windows 7
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