Victor Daley
Victor James William Patrick Daley (
5 September 1858 –
29 December 1905) was an
Australian poet.
He was born at the Navan,
Emain Macha, County Armagh,
Ireland, and was educated at the
Christian Brothers at
Devonport in England. He arrived in Australia in 1878, and became a freelance journalist and writer in both
Melbourne and
Sydney. Whilst in Melbourne, he met and became a friend of
Marcus Clarke; later, in Sydney, he became acquainted with
Henry Kendall. He is notable for becoming the first author in Australia who tried to earn a living from writing alone. He died at Sydney, of
tuberculosis.
He used the
pseudonym Creeve Roe,(Irish =Red Branch - the area next to the Navan where Cu Chulainn trained as a Red Branch Knight) as well as his own name. His
Poems (1908) and other collections were published posthumously.
A memoir of Daley by
Bertram Stevens was published in
Wine and Roses.
Daley serves chiefly as an example of the
Celtic twilight in Australian verse. He also serves as a lyrical alternative to his contemporary bush balladists.
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At Dawn and Dusk (1898)
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Wine and Roses (1911)
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Creeve Roe (1947)
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| Australian Authors -- Victor Daley (1858-1905) contains a number of his poems.
