Surname: O’Reilly Forename(s): John Boyle b. 28 June 1844. d. 10 August 1890. Nationality: Irish. VIAF.
Poet, editor, and Irish nationalist. Born in Dowth, Castle, Ireland. Worked for the
newspaper The Argus. Arrested for his political actions as an Irish revolutionary and Fenian in 1866.
Sent to work in the penal colonies in Western Australia. Escaped to Boston, Massachusetts
on an American whaling ship. Member of the O’Neill invasion of Canada in 1870. Married
Mary Murphy on 15 August 1872. Editor of the Pilot. Founder of the Papyrus Club. Author of the volume of poetry In Bohemia (1886). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 361; ODNB. (CC)