In his affectionate and gently humorous verses John O’Brien (Father Patrick Joseph Hartigan) sang of farming life and of the life of Irish settlers in Australia – at home, on the land, and at the Church upon the Hill that is the center of their lives.
Around the Boree Log is verse that is simple and sincere and lit with a kindly understanding of the lives it chronicles.
John O’Brien is the the pseudonym of Patrick Joseph Hartigan, a Roman Catholic priest, educator, author and poet.