Phillip J. O'Reilly
Phillip J. O'Reilly
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| Given name: | Phillip |
| Middle name: | J. |
| Family name: | O'Reilly |
| Place of birth: | County Cavan |
| Place of death: | Chicago, Ill. |
| Year of birth: | 1865 |
| Year of death: | After 1930 |
| Profile: | Collector, Musician |
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Biographical notes[edit]
Phillip J. O'Reilly was not mentioned in O'Neill's Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913), nor was he present in the famous c. 1903 photograph of the Chicago Irish Music Club. However a member of the club was fiddler Philip J. O'Reilly, a native of County Cavan and a "good player [who] had many old manuscripts" [1906 letter from O'Neill to Alfred Percival Graves published in the Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society]. A 1930 census record indicates Phillip J. O'Reilly was born in 1865 in the Irish Free State and was living in Cook County, Chicago, Illinois.
