Irish poet, journalist, author, and activist (1844-1890) who was transported to Western Australia for his association with the Irish Republican Brotherhood (the 'Fenians'); he escaped the colony in 1869 and settled in Boston, where he found work as a poet and reported for The Pilot. AQS on an off-white 5.5 x 9 sheet of "The Pilot Editorial Rooms" letterhead, signed at the conclusion in ink, "John Boyle O'Reilly." O'Reilly pens a poetic verse, in full: "Like a sawyer's work is life: / The present makes the flaw, / And the only field for strife / Is the inch before the saw." Professionally inlaid into a larger sheet and in fine condition.
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