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O'Reilly, John Boyle

journalist, author, poet, was born June 28, 1844, in Ireland. He was a noted journalist of Boston, editor of The Pilot. In his youth he was concerned in a fenian outbreak in Ireland, and banished to Australia. Escaping thence he came to America in 1869 and settled in Boston, where his talents speedily secured recognition. Much of his work in verse is ephemeral, but his best lines have the ring of true poetry.

He was the author of Songs, Legends, and Ballads; Moondyne; The Statues in the Block, and Other Poems; Songs of the Southern Seas; In Bohemia. In prose he published, Stories and Sketches; and The Ethics of Boxing. He died Aug. 10, 1890, in Hull, Mass.