John Boyle O'Reilly
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O'Reilly gave extensive coverage to the Great Railway Strike of 1877
The US army attacking striking workers during the Great Railway Strike of 1877 (US Library of Congress). Such scenes of violence were common during the economic disruption of the 1870s. John Boyle O'Reilly, initially an opponent of strikes and trade unions, used The Pilot newspaper to defend the striking workers.
Michael Davitt, colleague of John Boyle O'Reilly
A sketch of Michael Davitt in the 1880s (US Library of Congress). Davitt met with O'Reilly and John Devoy in Boston during 1878. Davitt remained in close contact with O'Reilly.
Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips, the great abolitionist and civil rights advocate, photographed a few years before his death in 1884 (US Library of Congress). That year O'Reilly composed an elegy to his friend.

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