Resigning because of editorial differences and personal issues, he spent a year with his dying father in Kilkenny (1912–13). Joining the Chicago Evening Post (1906), he wrote features, reviews, and editorials, becoming literary editor in 1908, and founding editor of its nationally renowned literary supplement, the Friday Literary Review (1909–11). Emigrating to America (1901), he worked variously in a law office, the advertising department of Cosmopolitan magazine, and a railroad office, as paymaster's yeoman on a school ship, and as cub reporter on William Randolph Hearst's Chicago American, which sacked him for exaggerating stories. Kildare (1897–1900), he developed a passion for literature, and, influenced by his father's Parnellite and Dreyfusard sympathies, a fierce hostility to British government and Roman Catholic influence in Ireland. Educated locally by the Christian Brothers and at Clongowes Wood College, Co. (1883–1962), novelist, historian, and journalist, was born 21 January 1883 at 34 Patrick St., Kilkenny city, one of six sons and three daughters of John Byrne Hackett, a Kilkenny-born doctor, and Bridget Hackett (née Doheny), daughter of a prosperous farmer of Liss, Tullaroan, Co.
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