
Ashton, “John Boyle O'Reilly,” in James P. For additional details of O'Reilly's passage to Australia see also S. Absconded … on the 18th of February, 1869.” Online at, accessed Roche, 83. Description – Healthy appearance present age 25 years 5 feet 7½ inches high, black hair, brown eyes, oval visage, dark complexion: an Irishman. The police records of Western Australia posted a fugitive-wanted notice after O'Reilly's escape: “imperial convict arrived in the colony per convict ship Hougoumont in 1868 sentenced to twenty years, 9th July 1866. Helena, and finally joining the Bombay in Liverpool as crew member before making the final leg of his migration to Philadelphia.
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Sullivan (his friend, occasional sparring partner, and fellow celebrity among the Irish American community), sheds light on newly available pathways to social mobility made possible by simultaneous engagement with literary and athletic cultures.ġ6 O'Reilly hitched transport aboard a series of ships in a complex process as he made his escape westward across the Indian Ocean from Western Australia, narrowly avoiding capture at Rodriquez Island, sailing around Africa via the Cape of Good Hope, changing ships at St. This view of Boston's intellectual and physical cultures, observed from the standpoint of O'Reilly, a talented writer and a sort of literary counterpart of famed pugilist John L. His history of boxing, Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport (1888), is examined in detail as a key statement on pugilism, masculinity, and American citizenship fame. We observe through O'Reilly's sporting experiences and literary career how the development of upper-class amateur athletics in Boston and the popularity of boxing among its Irish working classes gave him exceptional influence among both groups. Ireland-born poet/lecturer/newspaper editor John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–90) provides an important example of social and intellectual class mobility from the perspective of an immigrant writer.

Angelina Hoffschneider via TKO – Round 1, 0:46 Frank Mir via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 1:59 Triller Fight Club: Triad Combat – Fight card and results

It is expected to be an action-packed bout, especially since they had the heated staredown yesterday. Now he is competing again for the first since parting ways with the UFC and he will take on Sakio Bika. Mike Perry and UFC went separate ways earlier this year after Perry accumulating a losing streak of two fights in a row.

Mike Perrys first fight since leaving the UFC!
