Joseph O'Neill (1886-1953)
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Joseph O'Neill was an Irish novelist.
O'Neill was born in the Aran Islands, County Galway, Ireland, in 1886. He became a school inspector and subsequently Secretary of the Department of Education in the newly-formed Irish Free State. He wrote five novels, of which the best-known was Land Under England, a science-fiction account of a totalitarian society ruled by telepathic mind control, cited by Karl Edward Wagner as one of the thirteen best science-fiction horror novels.[1]. He died in 1953.
He was the husband of Mary Devenport O'Neill
[edit] List of Works
- Wind From the North (1934)
- Land under England (1935) [ISBN 0-14-008956-X]
- Day of Wrath (1936)
- Philip (1940)
- Chosen by the Queen (1947)
[edit] References
- ^ N. G. Christakos, "Three By Thirteen: The Karl Edward Wagner Lists" in Black Prometheus: A Critical Study of Karl Edward Wagner, ed. Benjamin Szumskyj, Gothic Press 2007.
