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{{short description|Irish-Australian writer}}
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{{wikisource|Author:Victor James William Patrick Daley|Victor James William Patrick Daley}}
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{{Infobox person
| name        = Victor James Daley
| image       = Portrait of F.J. Donohue and Victor Daley.jpg
| caption     = Victor Daley (at right) (c. 1880–1900)
| birth_name  = Victor James William Patrick Daley
| birth_date  = {{birth date|df=yes|1858|9|5}}
| birth_place = [[Navan]], [[County Meath]], Ireland 
| death_date  = {{death date and age|df=yes|1905|12|29|1858|9|5}}
| death_place = [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], Australia
| occupation  = Poet
| spouse      = 
| children    = 
| relatives   = 
}}

'''Victor James William Patrick Daley''' (5 September 1858 &ndash; 29 December 1905) was an Australian poet.  Daley serves chiefly as an example of the [[Irish Literary Revival|Celtic Twilight]] in Australian verse.  He also serves as a lyrical alternative to his contemporary bush balladists of [[Henry Lawson]], [[Banjo Paterson]], and [[William Henry Ogilvie|Will H. Ogilvie]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198989883 |title=Exit Victor J. Daley. |newspaper=[[Truth (Brisbane newspaper)|Truth]] |issue=310 |location=Brisbane |date=31 December 1905 |access-date=19 November 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
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==Life==

Daley was born at the [[Navan]], [[County Meath]], Ireland,<ref group="note">Some articles incorrectly indicate Navan was in County Armagh, such as the Australian Dictionary of Biography (1981). </ref> and was educated at the [[Congregation of Christian Brothers|Christian Brothers]] at [[Devonport, Devon|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 (poet)|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 [[Bohemianism|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 [[William Henry Ogilvie|Will H. Ogilvie]] (1869–1963) in 1901 at the Hotel Australia, Sydney.<ref name=Freeman1901>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111081787 |title=Bohemia up to date. |newspaper=[[The Catholic Weekly|Freeman's Journal]] |volume=LII |issue=3239 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=2 February 1901 |access-date=18 November 2017 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>  [[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, New South Wales|Waitara]], Sydney of [[tuberculosis]] and was buried in the Roman Catholic section of [[Waverley Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ailwood Keel|first1=G. D.|title=Daley, Victor James William Patrick (1858–1905)|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/daley-victor-james-5867|website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=Australian National University|access-date=19 November 2017|date=1981}}</ref>

===Legacy===

His work was not considered particularly ''Australian'' in nature, but quite lyrical,<ref name=Freeman1901 /> with 'natural delicacy of expression, graceful imagery, and refinement of language'.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125874621 |title=The late Victor DALEY. |newspaper=[[The Sunday Times (Sydney)|The Sunday Times]] |issue=1041 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=31 December 1905 |access-date=19 November 2017 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>  His ''Poems'' (1908) and other collections were published posthumously.  Daley's finest Australian work was considered to be ''[[wikisource: A Sunset Fantasy|A Sunset Fantasy]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202893947 |title=Obituary |newspaper=[[The Evening Star (Boulder, Western Australia)|The Evening Star]] |volume=8 |issue=2400 |location=Western Australia |date=30 December 1905 |access-date=19 November 2017 |page=3|edition=Third |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

When he died, Scottish-Australian poet and bush balladeer [[William Henry Ogilvie|Will H. Ogilvie]] (1869–1963) penned:<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115585798 |title=KENDALL on the Hawkesbury. |newspaper=[[The Catholic Weekly|Freeman's Journal]] |volume=LXXI |issue=3702 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=26 February 1920 |access-date=21 February 2018 |page=25 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83629986 |title=The ink quest |newspaper=[[The Clipper]] |volume=12 |issue=680 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=5 May 1906 |access-date=21 February 2018 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

:When 'the little folk' meet by the red rowan tree
::The dance shall be stayed in the ring on the plot
:While they twine in his green Irish isle of the sea
::The wreath we forgot.

A memoir of Daley by [[Bertram Stevens (critic)|Bertram Stevens]] was published in ''Wine and Roses''.

==Bibliography==
[[File:Victor_James_William_Patrick_Daley_1890s.jpg|thumb|right|Daley in 1890s]]

* ''[[At Dawn and Dusk]]'' (1898)
* ''Wine and Roses'' (1911)
* ''Creeve Roe'' (1947)

==Individual works==

* "[[wikisource: The First of May|The First of May]]" (1882)
* "[[wikisource: At the Opera|At the Opera]]" (1883)
* "[[wikisource: Dreams (Daley poem)|Dreams]]" (1883)
* "[[wikisource: On the River (Daley poem)|On the River]]" (1885) (also known as "Years After")
* "[[wikisource: On the Shore|On the Shore]]" (1885) (also known as "Sunset") 
* "[[wikisource: Brunette|Brunette]]" (1886)
* "[[wikisource: Poppies|Poppies]]" (1886)
* "[[wikisource: The Old Wife and the New|The Old Wife and the New]]" (1887)
* "[[A Sunset Fantasy]]" (1888)
* "[[wikisource: Even So|Even So]]" (1890)
* "[[wikisource: Lachesis|Lachesis]]" (1891)
* "[[wikisource: A-Roving|A-Roving]]" (1892)
* "[[wikisource: Cares|Cares]]" (1892)
* "[[wikisource: Correggio Jones|Correggio Jones]]" (1898)
* "[[wikisource: The Woods of Dandenong|The Woods of Dandenong]]" (1899)
* "[[wikisource: Players|Players]]" (1900)
* "[[wikisource: When London Calls|When London Calls]]" (1900)
* "[[wikisource: Anna (Daley poem)|Anna]]" (1902)
* "[[wikisource: The Woman at the Washtub|The Woman at the Washtub]]" (1902)
* "[[wikisource: The Night Ride|The Night Ride]]" (1907)

==Notes==

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==References==

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==External links==
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* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Victor James William Patrick Daley}}
* {{Librivox author |id=10503}}
* [http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/daleyv/daleyv.html   Australian Authors -- Victor Daley (1858-1905)] contains a number of his poems.

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