in 2005. In the early 1900s, Boyle O'Reilly Terrace, an estate built on the north side of Dundalk, was named after him. Author and historian Francis Russell included an essay about O'Reilly in his 1987 book "The Knave of Boston & Other Ambiguous Massachusetts Characters". Russell described how O'Reilly had gone from being perhaps the most famous Irishman in American in the late 1800s to a largely "forgotten poet" a century later. Around the mid-1980s, Irish researcher Liam Barry (based in Bunbury) discovered the story of O'Reilly's escape and began to research more into it and promote the story. Before his death in 2015 he published multiple books on O'Reilly and the Fenians. Around 1987 The John Boyle O'Reilly Association of Bunbury, Western Australia was founded, Barry was one of the founding members. In 2002 an interpretative display was opened for John Boyle O'Reilly, in Western Australia on the Leschenault Peninsula Conservation Park, from where he escaped to the United States. In April 2011 The John Boyle O'Reilly Association was established in Netterville his ancestral home, near Drogheda, Ireland. J.B. O'Reilly's pub in West Leederville, Western Australia is named after O'Reilly. In 2019, a festival was held in Fremantle to commemorate the 150th anniversary of O'Reilly's escape titled the Moondyne Walk, where a series of different readers would read out a chapter of his 1879 novel Moondyne. The list of readers included former Western Australian premier Peter Dowding, epidemiologist Fiona Stanley, author and journalist Peter FitzSimons and actor Peter Rowsthorn. Pardon request In 1999 then-Western Australian opposition leader, Geoff Gallop, made an unsuccessful request to British Prime Minister and friend Tony Blair to grant O'Reilly a pardon. Works Songs from the Southern Seas (1873) – a collection of poems Songs, Legends and Ballads (1878) – a collection of poems Moondyne (1879) – a novel based on his experiences as a convict in Western Australia The Statues in the Block (1881) – a collection of poems In Bohemia (1886) – a collection of poems The Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport (1888) – a treatise on health and physical exercise, later republished as Athletics and Manly Sport Watchwords (1891) – released posthumously and was edited by Katherine E. Conway. Selected poems of John Boyle O'Reilly (1904) In popular culture O'Reilly is said to have been U.S. President John F. Kennedy's favourite poet. In 1913 Melbourne-based silent film company Lincoln-Cass Film Company