Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1919 — John Boyle O’Reilly. [ARTICLE]

John Boyle O’Reilly.

An Irish-American poet and journalist. born at Dowth castle. County Meath. Ireland. June 28. 1844, John Boyle O’Reilly arose rapidly in his chosen career and came to be beloved for his earnestness of purpose and the human interest which he interjected into his writings. At the age of eighteen he went to London as an agent of the Fenian* society, and later was sentenced to be shot by the British government, but this sentence was commuted to penal servitude for 20 years. O’Reilly escaped from western Australia, was rescued by an American whaler and carried to the United States. He settled in 'Boston and devoted his talents to literary work and public activity, and died At>gust 10, IS9O.