The face on the label: John Boyle O’Reilly
“Only those who have stood within the bars and heard the din of devils and the appalling sounds of despair can imagine the horrors of the hold of a convict ship.” John Boyle O’Reilly.
Some men overcome adversity. Others make an art of it. In 1867 John Boyle O’Reilly was given a sentence second only to death in its severity, transportation. O’Reilly, however, was no ordinary…
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