J. Bernard Burke, Freeman's Journal — The Late Henry O'Neill (1880)
“ His widow, a very estimable person, and her young children are left absolutely penniless and destitute. Poor O'Neill is dead, after a weary, toilsome life; but his great work, "The Sculptural Crosses of Ancient Ireland," remains an enduring memorial of his industry and genius, Unfortunately, Irish art is no gainful profession, and no wonder is it that O'Neill, whose latter years were years of most straitened circumstances and oft-recurring illness, found it impossible to make any provision for his family. ”
