Joseph O'Neill (1886–1953)

For other people named Joseph O'Neill, see Joseph O'Neill (disambiguation).

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]^[2] His other novels include the time-travel novel Wind From the North and the future-war story Day of Wrath.^[2] He died in 1953.

He was the husband of Mary Devenport O'Neill, poet and friend of W.B. Yeats, who consulted her when writing 'A Vision'. Devenport O'Neill was an important writer in her own right, whose work warrants further study.

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)

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.
^ ^a ^b Arthur O. Lewis, "O'Neill, Joseph", in Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers by Curtis C. Smith. St. James Press, 1986, ISBN 0912289279 (p.553-4).

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