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Eugene O'Neill Jr. (step-son) Agnes Ruby Boulton (September 19, 1893 – November 25, 1968) was a British-born American pulp magazine writer in the 1910s, later the wife of Eugene O'Neill . Life and career
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg.
O'Neill Jr.'s parents divorced in 1912, when he was a toddler. O'Neill once said he did not even meet his father until age 12. [2] He entered Yale in 1928; in his freshman year a poem he had written was widely reprinted. [2] He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1932, where he was a member of Skull and Bones secret student society. [1]
O'Neill's parents and older brother, Shane, photographed in Cape Cod in 1922, three years before her birth. Oona O'Neill was born on 14 May 1925 in the British colony of Bermuda, where her parents had relocated six months before her birth in the hopes that it would be a good place to write during the winter. [1]
O'Neill could not afford to sacrifice wealth in the face of a growing family. His son Eugene was born in New York on October 16, 1888. [3] He went on to play this role over 6000 times. Some, including Eugene, saw O'Neill's willingness to play the role so many times as selling out; squandering the potential of his art in order to make money. [8]
Henry MacShane O'Neill (Irish: Anraí mac Seáin Ó Néill; c. 1545-1550 – 1622) was an Irish flaith (nobleman) and a son of Shane O'Neill.He was the leader of the MacShanes in the late 16th century and early 17th century, and sought control of the O'Neill Clan, fighting with his brother Art against Hugh O'Neill.
Owen Roe O'Neill, the famous Irish General of the 1600s, was asked whether he, upon the death of Shane O'Neill, was the Earl of Tyrone. He denied it, saying that the true Earl was Constantino O'Neill, then in Spain. Don Constantino or Conn O'Neill was cousin to both Shane and Owen O'Neill through both sides of his family.
Shane O'Neill (Irish: Séan mac Cuinn Ó Néill; c. 1530 – 2 June 1567) was an Irish chieftain of the O'Neill dynasty of Ulster in the mid-16th century. Shane O'Neill's career was marked by his ambition to be the O'Neill—sovereign of the dominant O'Neill family of Tír Eoghain. This brought him into conflict with competing branches of the O ...