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1 y separately published work icon Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport John Boyle O'Reilly , Boston : Pilot Publishing Co. , 1890 Z1357417 1888 reference
1 y separately published work icon In Bohemia John Boyle O'Reilly , Boston : Pilot Publishing Co. , 1886 Z844929 1886 selected work poetry
3 11 y separately published work icon Moondyne : A Story from the Under-world John Boyle O'Reilly , Boston : Pilot Publishing Co. , 1879 Z1213748 1878-1879 single work novel

'Cross-cutting between England and Western Australia, which is described here as "a vast and unknown country, almost mysterious in its solitude and unlikeness to any other part of the earth," O'Reilly's novel mixes romance, transportation, and discussion of penal policy, with Moondyne Joe himself, a prisoner who escapes to the Australian bush, re-emerging subsequently as "Comptroller-General of Convicts in Australia," in which role he propounds a system of reform based upon "the radical principles of humanity".

'The novel's plot develops through a romance between an English Catholic with an Irish name, Will Sheridan, and his childhood sweetheart Alice Walmsley, who is wrongly convicted of murdering her own child and held in London's Millbank Prison, after being transported to Australia.'

Source: Giles, Paul. Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U.S. Literature. USA: Oxford University Press, 2014.
1 y separately published work icon Songs, Legends and Ballads John Boyle O'Reilly , Boston : Pilot Publishing Co. , 1878 Z844938 1878 selected work poetry
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