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Name: Seamus O'Neill  
   
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Date of Birth: 8th September 1952
   
Place of Birth: Richmond, Yorkshire, England, UK
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Séamus Ó Néill, (1910-1986), was a versatile Irish writer from Castlewellan, County Down, Northern Ireland. Following a primary degree from Queens University, Belfast he did historical research under Eoin MacNeill at University College, Dublin. He spent periods as editor of the journals An Iris and Comhar.

The endpiece from Dánta do pháistí (Poems for Children), entitled Subh Milis (Sweet Jam), a poignant poem dedicated to his mother (subtitle: Ceann do Mhama), is one of his best-known works:

Bhí subh milis
Ar bhas-crann an dorais
Ach mhúch mé an chorraí
Ionam d'éirigh,
Mar smaoinigh mé ar an lá
A bheas an bha-scrann glan,
Agus an lámh bheag
Ar iarraidh.

There was jam
 On the doorhandle
 But I suppressed the vexation
 That rose up in me,
 Because I thought of the day
 That the doorhandle would be clean
 And the little hand
 Sought for.

Two of his novels, Tonn Tuile and Máire Nic Artáin, dealt with marital breakdown - the latter set in the religiously divided communities of Belfast during the First World War.

Works by Séamus Ó Néill

  • An sean-saighdiúir agus scéalta eile (The veteran and other stories), 1945.
  • An iris/eagarth (An Iris edited), 1945-1946.
  • Colm Cille : drama i gceithre radharcanna (Columcill: a drama in four scenes), 1946.
  • Tonn tuile (Tidal Wave), Novel, Sáirséal agus Dill, 1947.
  • Dánta Poems, pre-1949;
  • Iomramh an Ousel (The Voyage of the Ousel), Poems, pre-1949;
  • Buaidh an Ultaigh (The Ulsterman will Win), Drama, pre-1949;
  • Díolta Faoina Luach (Below-cost Sales), Drama, pre-1949;
  • Ní Chuireann siad Síol (They Sow no Seed), Drama, pre-1949;
  • Dánta do pháistí (Poems for Children), 1949.
  • Súil timpeall (Eye Around), Essay, 1951.
  • Up the Rebels, Oifig an tSoláthair, 1954. Trans. Doiminic Ó Ceallaigh.
  • Ag baint fraochán : agus scéalta eile (Picking Blaeberries and other stories), 1955.
  • Máire Nic Artáin (Maire McCartan), Novel, Cló Morainn, 1959.
  • Iníon Rí Dhún Sobhairce : tragóid trí ghníomh (The King of Dunseverick's Daughter: a tragedy in three acts), 1967.
  • Faill ar an bhFeart : dráma trí ghníomh (Opportunity of a Miracle: a drama in three acts), c.1970.
  • An tSiúr Pól : dráma trí ghníomh (Sister Paul: a drama in three acts), c.1973.
  • Rún an Oileáin (The Secret of the Island), pub. c.1975. Staged in the Damer Hall, Dublin 5-10 June, 1961.
  • Iníon rí na Spáinne (The King of Spain's Daughter), 1978.

Critical and Bibliographic Material

  • The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, Welch, R. (ed.), The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996.
  • A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers, Cleeve A.M. & B. (eds.), The Lilliput Press, 1985.
  • Dictionary of Ulster Biography, in Newmann, K. (comp.), The Queen's University of Belfast, 1993.
  • Séamus Ó Néill bibliography from James Hardiman Library, UCG

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