Joseph O'Neill (writer, born 1886)
Joseph O'Neill (1886-1952) was an Irish novelist.
Biography
O'Neill claimed later in his life that he was born in the
anti-fascist
subtext.[2][3] The novel was cited by Karl Edward Wagner as one of the thirteen best science-fiction horror novels.[4]
His other SF novel, published in 1936, is the future-war story Day of Wrath.
His other novels include the time travel (or timeslip novel)
Wind From the North, in which the author is transported in a dreamlike fashion to Dublin or Dyflin in the period leading up to the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, and Philip, a biblical epic. Wind from the North was later a standard Irish primary school text in the 1950s, in an edition published by Browne & Nolan.[citation needed]
He died on 6 May 1952.
Personal life
O'Neill was the husband of a noted writer in her own right — Mary Devenport O'Neill. She was a poet and friend of W. B. Yeats, who consulted her when writing 'A Vision'.
List of works
- Wind From the North (1934) Jonathan Cape, UK; Simon & Schuster, US
- Land under England (1935) ISBN 0-14-008956-X
- Day of Wrath (1936) Gollancz
- Philip (1940) Gollancz
- Chosen by the Queen (1947)
References
- ^ Arthur O. Lewis, "O'Neill, Joseph", in Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers by Curtis C. Smith.
St. James Press, 1986, ISBN 0-912289-27-9(p.553-4).
- ISBN 0415435714(p.23).
- ^ Richard J. Howard (2019) Estranging Ireland: The underground self of the Irish free state in Joseph O’Neill’s Land Under England, Irish Studies Review, 27:2, 235-252, DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2019.1600640
- Gothic Press2007.
Further reading
Giffuni, C. "Joseph O'Neill, a Bibliography," The Journal of Irish Literature, Volume XVI Number 2 May 1987.
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