Victor Daley

• Name — Victor James Daley • Birth Name — Victor James William Patrick Daley • Born — 5 September 1858 • Birthplace — Navan, County Meath, Ireland • Died — 29 December 1905 • Place of death — Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Occupation — Poet

Daley was born at the Navan, County Meath, 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. In Sydney in 1898, he founded the bohemian Dawn and Dusk Club, and the later Supper Club, which had many notable members such as writer Henry Lawson. Together with fellow notable poet Louise Mack, he organised the farewell dinner to Scottish-Australian poet and bush balladeer Will H. Ogilvie (1869–1963) in 1901 at the Hotel Australia, Sydney. Banjo Paterson and Roderic Quinn were also present at the send-off. He used the pseudonym Creeve Roe (Irish for Red Branch, the area next to the Navan where Cú Chulainn trained as a Red Branch Knight), as well as his own name. Daley died at his home in Waitara, Sydney of tuberculosis and was buried in the Roman Catholic section of Waverley Cemetery.

• |Title — |Year — |First published — |Reprinted/collected in • "A Sunset Fantasy" — 1888 — The Bulletin, 21 January 1888 — At Dawn and Dusk, Angus and Robertson, 1898, pp. 128-131 • "When London Calls" — 1900 — The Bulletin, 8 December 1900 — Wine and Roses edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1911, pp. 102-104 • "The Woman at the Washtub" — 1902 — The Bulletin, 29 November 1902 — Wine and Roses edited by Bertram Stevens, Angus and Robertson, 1911, pp. 77-79 Others • Illustration — Daley in 1890s • "The First of May" (1882) • "At the Opera" (1883) • "Dreams" (1883) • "On the River" (1885) (also known as "Years After") • "On the Shore" (1885) (also known as "Sunset") • "Brunette" (1886) • "Poppies" (1886) • "The Old Wife and the New" (1887) • "Even So" (1890) • "Lachesis" (1891) • "A-Roving" (1892) • "Cares" (1892) • "Correggio Jones" (1898) • "The Woods of Dandenong" (1899) • "Players" (1900) • "Anna" (1902) • "The Night Ride" (1907)