Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection documents the later life of Irish political activist, author, and editor John Boyle O'Reilly during his years living in Boston, Massachusetts. Materials include his artifacts, correspondence, hand-written poems, sheet music for the musical setting of two of O'Reilly's poems, and the scrapbooks he assembled to document his literary career. O'Reilly's correspondence is mostly on letterhead from The Pilot and generally relates to his editorial...

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Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.