abstract:Tom Reilly (born 1960) is an Irish author and newspaper columnist (Life of Reilly, Drogheda Independent), who has written books on Oliver Cromwell and religion, as well as a book based on his own newspaper columns among others. To date in total, he has published eight books, two of which have been conventionally published, the other six have been self-published.
Reilly, who knew Tom James from years earlier owing to their shared love of tennis, had thought about the possibility of a job at Raymond James but never dreamed they would ask him to succeed James.