Location: in the Fenway (just outside Kenmore Square), at the head of Boylston St., Boston.

Description: John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890), politician, journalist and poet, was born in Ireland. An ardent revolutionist, he enlisted in a British cavalry regiment in order to spread disaffection among the Irish troops. In 1866, he was court-martialed for sedition and sentenced to be shot, but the sentence was commuted to twenty-years penal servitude. Transported to Western Australia, in 1869 he escaped to the United States, settled in Boston, became a newspaper editor, and organized the expedition in 1876 that rescued the Irish military political prisoners from Western Australia. In the 1905 photograph, French stands beside his "Erin and her Sons, Patriotism and Poetry."

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