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Moondyne is an 1879 novel by John Boyle O'Reilly. It is loosely based on the life of the Western Australian convict escapee and bushranger Moondyne Joe.
O'Reilly was a Fenian revolutionary who was transported as a convict to Western Australia. During his time in Western Australia's penal system he would have heard many stories of Moondyne Joe's exploits, although it almost certain that the two men never met. After thirteen months in Western Australia, O'Reilly escaped the colony on board the American whaling ship Gazelle. He arrived in America in 1869 and settled in Boston, where he established himself as a respected journalist, newspaper editor, novelist and poet.
In 1913, film director W. J. Lincoln made a silent film of the same name.
Moondyne can refer to a number of things:
- Moondyne, a novel written in 1879 by John Boyle O'Reilly, and later made into a feature film of the same name
- Joseph Bolitho Johns, better known as Moondyne Joe, a bushranger from Western Australia
- Moondyne Cave, a cave in the south-west of Western Australia near Augusta discovered and used by Johns
- Moondyne Nature Reserve, a land reserve within the Avon Valley National Park and located at , about 20 km west of Toodyay, Western Australia