John C. O'Neill
John C. O'Neill

Author: Thomas Fox

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-07-26

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0786497939

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 In June 1866, an 800-man contingent of the Irish Fenian Brotherhood invaded Canada from Buffalo, New York, in an effort to free Ireland from British rule. The force was led by Irish-born John Charles O'Neill, a veteran of the Union Army's 5th Indiana Cavalry. The three-day invasion was a military success but a political failure, yet O'Neill was celebrated for his leadership and humanity. Elevated to the presidency of the Fenian Brotherhood, "General" O'Neill would again lead Irish nationalists against Canada in 1870. Jailed and later pardoned by President U.S. Grant, O'Neill left the Fenians and attempted a third, futile attack into Canada. O'Neill then became a colonizer, urging Irish Americans to abandon cities in the East to settle on the fertile plains of the West. O'Neill City, Nebraska, is named in his honor. This first full-length biography covers the rise, fall and resurgence of a remarkable figure in American and Irish history.

The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill
The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill

Author: Michael Manheim

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-09-24

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780521556453

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Specially commissioned essays explore the life and work of Eugene O'Neill from his earliest writings to Long Day's Journey Into Night.

O'Neill
O'Neill

Author: Louis Scheaffer

Publisher: Cooper Square Press

Published: 2002-08-19

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13: 1461732182

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The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) won four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for a body of work that includes The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms, and Long Day's Journey into Night. His life, the direct source for so much of his art, was one of personal tumult from the very beginning. The son of a famous actor and a quiet, morphine-addicted mother, O'Neill had experienced alcoholism, a collapse of his health, and bouts of mania while still a young man. Based on years of extensive research and access to previously untapped sources, Sheaffer's authoritative biography examines how the pain of O'Neill's childhood fed his desire to write dramas and affected his artistically successful and emotionally disastrous life.

The Ecological Eugene O'Neill
The Ecological Eugene O'Neill

Author: Robert Baker-White

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-09-25

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0786498757

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The dramas of Eugene O'Neill--often called America's first "serious" playwright--exhibit an imagining of the natural world that enlivens the plays and marks the boundaries of the characters' fates. O'Neill's figures move within purposefully animated natural environments--ocean, dense forest, desert plains, the rocky soil of New England. This new approach to O'Neill's dramas explores these ecological settings as crucial to his characters' ability to carry out their conscious and unconscious desires. O'Neill's career is covered, from his youthful one-acts, to the middle years experimental dramas, to the mature tragedies of his late period. Special attention is paid to the connection of ecology and theological quest, and to O'Neill's persistent evocation of an exotic, natural "other." Combining an ecocritical approach with an examination of Classical and philosophical influences on the playwright's creative process, the author reveals a new, less hermetic O'Neill.

Struggle, Defeat or Rebirth
Struggle, Defeat or Rebirth

Author: Thierry Dubost

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2005-10-27

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0786424192

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To Eugene O'Neill, the links between man and his surroundings were of prime importance. His characters struggled with existential problems, and how they related to them reveals much about O'Neill's own humanity. For the most part, the characters defeat their problems and in doing so are "reborn" in some manner. This work examines the 49 plays that O'Neill completed, focusing on his attempt to find an inner truth in his characters. Part One explores the family, showing how a person is trapped by heredity, space, time and communal hierarchy. Part Two deals with the individual and society, showing how societal conventions confined the characters. In Part Three, personal freedom is the centerpiece, showing how the characters develop a specific approach to life that leads to a coherent vision of the characters' relationships with the world around them.

Purdon Genealogy
Purdon Genealogy

Author: F. Janet Gosior

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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"Our first Purdon family member to arrive in Canada was Robert Purdon who sailed from Glasgow, Scotland in 1821 with his wife, Jane Ferguson, and their four young children. They came with the hope of a better life to the unknown and wilderness of Upper Canada. The subject of this book is to provide information about his Scottish ancestry and to continue with information on his seven children, sixty-six known grandchildren, and their descendants"--Intro. Descendants have resided in Scotland, England, Ontario, Manitoba, British Columbia, Alberta and elsewhere.