Revolutionary Connection: 'The Incorruptible' Maximilian Robespierre and the 'Schoolmaster of Chartism' Bronterre O' Brien.

The article focuses on how Irish Chartist leader James Bronterre O'Brien used the ideologies of French revolutionary politician Maximilian Robespierre in an attempt to reform democracy in Great Britain throughout the early 1800s. The author compares the political and social issues taking place in Britain to those that had started the French Revolution. He discusses O'Brien's role in the history of Chartism, explores how he sought to end aristocratic tyranny, and analyzes the impact of the British parliamentary act known as the 1832 Reform Act on democratic suffrage.