Thomas Devin Reilly

Life
1824-1854; b. Monaghan; ed. TCD; encouraged by Charles Gavan Duffy; staff-journalist on The Nation; friend of John Mitchel, working on The United Irishman; co-fnd. The Irish Felon with John Martin; escaped to America on bail, May, 1848; edited Democratic Review and later the Washington Union; contrib. to American Review; The People, the Whig Review, and Boston Protective Union. ODNB DIH

 

Criticism
John Mitchel, ‘Memoir of Thomas Devin Reilly’, The Irishman (30 April 1864) [copy held in Madden Papers, Pearse St. Library, Dublin (Gilbert MS 279).]

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