 William Butler Yeats wrote of him in his "Autobiographies" (1938).David James O'Donoghue was born in 1866 in Chelsea, London, to Irish parents, and grew up in the Hans Town area of Chelsea.He was son of John O'Donoghue, a bricklayer from Kilworth, Co. Cork, and Bridget Griffin, who was from Co. Tipperary.