1) Oahu is 44 miles long, 30 miles wide, 112 miles around and is the third-largest island in the Hawaiian chain of 132 islets, atolls and reefs stretching from kure atoll in the northwest to the big island of Hawaii in the southeast.
Origin. The phrase originated in the Irish/American community of the USA, in the early part of the 20th century. The first printed citation of it that I have found is from the Connecticut newspaper The Hartford Courant, December 1911 - in a piece headed ' Bullet Ends Life of Famous Wild Cow ':he best in the house is none too good for Reilly. So, while the idea of a notional Irishman living the high life was current in late 19th century America, the phrase 'the life of Riley' isn't found until the early 20th century.
Although the term âLife of Rileyâ first appeared in print in the Hartford Courant in 1911, vaudeville singer Pat Rooney had a comic hit with âIs that You, Mr. Reilly?â as early as 1883, depicting a hotel owner âdoing quite wellâ but with grand dreams.lthough fans of poet James Whitcomb Riley suggest that the term refers to the pleasant country life he described, there is no historical documentation for that theory. In the oldest texts, for instance, âRileyâ is spelled in the Irish style, âReilly.â.