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George Beresford O'Reilly, New York, to his sister, Susan O'Reilly, 19 November 1851
Luaigh an doiciméad seo Amharcóir IIIF
Bailiúchán O'Reilly Letters
Title George Beresford O'Reilly, New York, to his sister, Susan O'Reilly, 19 November 1851
Description [O'Reilly] reports that his $300 a year is not enough to live on, and that "For the last two years I have been living wholly excluded from a comfortable home and pleasant society, which does not tend to improve one's manners by any means... You have no idea of the miserable meals we get the meat is so tough that no one who has not gone through a course of Gymnastics can attempt to cut it you may conceive that it is not yery digestable. My life here is very monotonous... I exist on the 'vegetative' principle; if there was anything like a respectable war to break out I should feel inclined to drop quill driving altogether". [O'Reilly asks if Susan was still living at the locality of "Dieppe" (in France) — [The O'Reillys were landed gentry living at Heath House, county Laois. George Beresford O'Reilly ( b.16 January 1829) married Harrietta, daughter of H. Adams of Sante Fé de Bogota, U.S. Columbia, in 1867. His brother Myles O'Reilly lived at Heath House (as the O'Reilly heir). (Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol II. page 1207) According to Myles, his father's income suffered greatly because of the Famine and through an arrangement with creditors and ill health he resided in Italy and France with his two daughters for the latter years of his life while Myles remained in Ireland to manage the estate. Myles John O'Reilly's address is given in George's letter to his sister of 19 October 1852].
Date 19/11/1851
Date Issued 27/03/2023
Cineál Acmhainne Text
Archival Record Id p155/63/21
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 2pp
Topic O'Reilly Letters
Geographic New York City,New York (state),United States,Abbeville,Arrondissement of Abbeville,Somme (department),Hauts-de-France (region),France
Temporal Nineteenth century,Eighteen fifties
Genre Transcript
Note Title by University of Galway. Description and transcript by Professor Kerby Miller.
Creator / Author Name George Beresford O'Reilly