Word: ballymena
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Luxury was scarce in William John Neeson's early life. He grew up in the mill town of Ballymena, in Northern Ireland. A strapping lad, he was a youthful boxing champion. "I thought I wanted to be professional. But I realized I didn't have the killer instinct." Soon he was driving a forklift at the Guinness brewery in Belfast by day, and at night filling the Lyric Theatre stage with roles like that of Lennie in Of Mice and Men. In 1986 he moved to Los Angeles, where he was felled by diverticulitis, an intestinal disorder. That experience scarred...
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