Richard Baptist O'Brien (1809 – 1885) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest, author and home ruler.
Biography
Born in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary O'Brien became a Home Ruler nationalist and an anti-liberal ultramontanist fashioned after Pope Pius IX. As a writer he contributed to the The Irish Catholic Magazine, The Irish Monthly and The Nation. In 1849 he founded the Catholic Young Men’s Society in order to help Catholics advance their area of religious interests. He also wrote novels, often portraying moral dilemmas. O'Brien was president of Saint Mary's College, Canada from 1840-45.[1]
