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5 unusual facts about John O'Neill


Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill

He died on 25 March 1841 with no heirs; as such the earldom became extinct and the viscountcy transferred to his younger brother John O'Neill, 3rd Viscount O'Neill.

Here Comes the Summer

The song was inspired by The Ramones and written in 1978 by the band's main songwriter, John O'Neill.

Trevor Mallard

In April 2002, Trevor Mallard made crude comments about inserting beer bottles into "uncomfortable places" of International Rugby Board chairman Vernon Pugh and Australian Rugby boss John O'Neill during a radio interview about following the withdrawal of co-hosting rights for the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

William Lumley

Lumley's charge had given time for the rest of the garrison to escape, the only person of note to lose their life being the magistrate Lord O'Neill.

William O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill

In 1855 he succeeded to the substantial O'Neill estates on the death of his relative John O'Neill, 3rd Viscount O'Neill (on whose death the viscountcy became extinct) and assumed by Royal license the surname of O'Neill in lieu of Chichester the same year.


1827 in poetry

Edward Lytton Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton), published anonymously, O'Neill, or, The Rebel

Agnes Boulton

Her daughter, Oona O'Neill, married Charlie Chaplin in 1943 at the age of 18 (he was 54), and moved to Switzerland with him nine years later, renouncing her American citizenship.

Anglicisation of names

Ó Briain has often become O'Brien, Ó Rothláin became Rowland, Ó Néill became O'Neill and some surnames like Ó Súilleabháin may be shortened to just O'Sullivan or Sullivan.

Arthur O'Neill

Their eldest son Shane succeeded his grandfather in the barony in 1928 while their third son Terence O'Neill was Prime Minister of Northern Ireland between 1963 and 1969.

Artists Repertory Theatre

2010-Now: Artists Rep kicks off its 2010/11 season with a co-production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night with the award-winning and internationally recognized Sydney Theatre Company.

Bispham High School Arts College

The school also has a successful gospel choir, Bispham High School Gospel Choir, under the direction of Margaret Adereti (Conductor), Neill Oldham-Campbell (Accompanist) and Sarah Bagot (Vocal Support).

Blended wing body

-- mention the artist names since Neill Blomkamp is a noteworthy artist e.g. District 9 --> from The Embassy Visual Effects created the photo for the magazine using computer graphics software to depict the future of aviation and air travel.

BMW GS

which was documented in the book and TV series Race to Dakar, and again in 2007 when both used the R1200GS Adventure in their journey Long Way Down, in which they rode from John o'Groats at the northern tip of Scotland, to Cape Agulhas in South Africa at the southern tip of the African continent.

Brendan O'Neill

Brendan O'Neill (musician) (born 1951, Belfast), Irish musician, drummer of the late Rory Gallagher band and now Nine Below Zero

Capital Disney

The final line up of presenters at closure was Adam Morris, known on air as The General, James Beckingham, Matt James, Val Mellon, Leigh Purves, Nigel Mitchell, Andrew Rendle, known as Radio Rendle, Adam O'Neill, Saffron Oddy and Sophie Bruce.

Carl Benton Reid

He also appeared in several Shakespeare plays on Broadway, and in the original production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, as Harry Slade.

Cherry Boone

On October 4, 1975, Boone married writer Dan O'Neill, in a ceremony officiated by Jack Hayford, founding pastor of The Church On The Way, in Van Nuys, California.

Chitrasena

Besides spearheading the revival of indigenous dance forms, Chitrasena also made his stage debut as Othello in the Ernest MacIntyre production of Shakespeare's ‘Othello' and Emperor Jones in the late Karan Breckenridge's production of Eugene O'Neill's 'Emperor Jones'.

Count of Tyrone

The title of Count of Tyrone has been used by two European branches of the O'Neill family to claim affiliation with the O'Neill Earls of Tyrone in the Peerage of Ireland.

Edward L. O'Neill

He was interred in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in East Orange, New Jersey.

He served in the United States Navy from 1919–1923, after which he became engaged in the real estate business in Newark.

FA Trophy

Former Northern Ireland international Martin O'Neill, in his first managerial role, led Wycombe Wanderers to two wins, and Geoff Chapple managed Kingstonian to victory twice and Woking three times, all within the space of seven years.

George Bernard O'Neill

O' Neill's artistic manner was similar to that of Thomas Webster and Frederick Daniel Hardy.

Gord Mills

Mills was personally defeated in Durham East, finishing a poor second against Progressive Conservative John O'Toole.

Heatbeat

Now, they have risen to the ranks of playing side by side with artists such as Above & Beyond, John O'Callaghan, Cosmic Gate, and Ferry Corsten.

Hugh Higgins of Tyrawley

He had performed at Granard in 1791 "but won no premiums. In fact, he did not play at all at the second hall at Granard, having taken offense at something connected with the arrangements. Arthur O'Neill's avowed friendship for Higgins was a guarantee of his respectability."

If You Leave...

For the recording sessions, McEvoy recruited the talents of Grammy award-winning songwriter Jimmy Smyth on guitar, keyboard player James Delaney, bassists Paul Moore, Eoghan O’Neill, and drummer Des Lacey, with special guests Brian Connor on piano and David Agnew on oboe.

Independent Nationalist

Some others were elected as Independent Nationalists outside of the above groupings, such as Timothy Harrington (1900) & (1906), Joseph Nolan (1900), D. D. Sheehan (1906), Laurence Ginnell (1910), William Redmond and James Cosgrave (1923), Michael O'Neill (1951), John Hume (1969), Paddy O'Hanlon (1969) and Ivan Cooper (1969).

James Armand Meissner

Now flying a SPAD S.XIII fighter, he scored four more kills, one of which was an observation balloon, and another of which was shared with Ralph O'Neill.

Jedrij Notz

Notz was the best man to Christopher O'Neill when O'Neill married the Swedish princess Madeleine.

John Merrill

John O. Merrill, American architect and structural engineer, 1896-1975

John O. Reed

(with Clive Wake) A bibliography of modern creative writing in French from Madagascar, Salisbury, 1963

John O'Gaunt

John O'Gaunt Rowing Club for the rowing club in Lancaster, Lancashire, England

John O'Sullivan

John M. O'Sullivan (1881–1948), Irish Cumann na nGaedhael/Fine Gael politician, TD, cabinet minister and academic

KBRX

KBRX-FM, a radio station (102.9 FM) licensed to O'Neill, Nebraska, United States

Kilcronaghan

On 29 March, 1609, a Papal Bull from Pope Paul V gave Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, the "advowson of certain Rectories and Perpetual Vicarages on the dioceses of Armagh and Derry, respectively".

Marty O'Neill

Marty O'Neill, born June 6, 1964 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a former lacrosse player and former general manager of the Minnesota Swarm of the National Lacrosse League (NLL).

Michelle Mungall

Mungall was not expected to win the race, which was expected to be close between the incumbent Progressive Conservative Mary O'Neill and the Liberal challenger Len Bracko.

Moira O'Neill

Her poem Sea Wrack was also set to music for voice and piano by the composer Hamilton Harty and this remains a popular work today.

Neill Franklin

Stanford "Neill" Franklin was a police officer in Maryland for 33 years and is now a Huffington Post blogger and the executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).

O'Neill cylinder

O'Neill proposed the colonization of space for the 21st century, using materials extracted from the Moon and later from asteroids.

Rose O'Neill

Her properties included Bonniebrook; an apartment in Washington Square in Greenwich Village that inspired the song Rose of Washington Square; Castle Carabas in Connecticut; and Villa Narcissus on the Isle of Capri, Italy.

Royal Highness

In May 2013, the Marshal of the Realm Svante Lindqvist announced that O'Neill had not be granted royal status and will remain a private citizen.

Rudolf Virchow Award

1990 - John O'Neil - The Politics of Patient Dissatisfaction in Cross-Cultural Clinical Encounters: A Canadian Inuit example, Medical Anthropology 3 (4): 325-344.

Rydalmere, New South Wales

Rydalmere was named in 1866 by land speculator Thomas O'Neill when he subdivided Hannibal Macarthur's old Vineyard Estate.

SciLands

Founded in 1977 by Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill, Gerard O'Neill, Princeton University professor and author of The High Frontier, SSI sponsored and conducted research into areas such as solar power satellites, lunar bases, space colonies, asteroid mining, and mass drivers.

Susie O'Neill

She was the Oceania athletes' representative on the International Olympic Committee to 2005, when she resigned her membership (and was replaced by Barbara Kendall).

Suzy Branning

Suzy Branning (originally known as Sue) is a fictional character from the BBC One soap opera EastEnders, played by Julie Christian-Young for a brief appearance in 1996, and Maggie O'Neill in 2008, who began filming in May that year, and she made her first on-screen appearance on 8 July 2008, departing on 26 December 2008.

The Price of Loyalty

Published in early 2004, The Price of Loyalty chronicled the tenure of Paul O'Neill as Treasury Secretary during the Bush Administration.

Tiffany Pisani

During the tenth episode, internationally acclaimed photographer Terry O'Neill praised Pisani as his favourite girl in the competition.

Timothy S. Bitsberger

In October 2001, United States Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill selected Bitsberger to an Advisor of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets Richard S. Carnell.

Tommy Joe Gilmore

The Galway centre half was honoured with All-Star awards in 1972 and ’73 appearing on All-Star teams in the esteemed company of the likes of Sean O'Neill, Kevin Kilmurray, Brain McEniff, Mick O'Connell and Jimmy Barry Murphy to name but a few.

Ward Morehouse

Morehouse was a world traveler who drove across the United States over 23 times and visited 80 foreign countries in search of stories and interviews with such personalities as Sergeant Alvin York, Eugene O'Neill, Christopher Fry, H. L. Mencken, "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

William David Smith

Yaroslav Senyshyn will be releasing two of his Images ("Image" 1 and 2, Op. 33) on the Albany Records label in a 'live' album along with Susan O'Neill-Senyshyn (flautist).

William O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill

He was the great-great-great-grandson of John Chichester, grandson of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester, and younger brother of Arthur Chichester, 2nd Earl of Donegall.


see also

John Gerrish

John O'Neill (Jack) Gerrish (August 14, 1910 – November 29, 2010) was an American composer of the 20th century, best known for The Falcon, a cappella piece for SATB based on the Middle or Early Modern English Corpus Christi Carol.

John P. O'Neill

There is extensive coverage of John O'Neill's anti-terrorist work at the FBI and insights into his character and his private life in the book The Looming Tower (2006) by Lawrence Wright and in The Black Banners (2011) by Ali Soufan.