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...true Irishman, Eugene O'Neill was a connoisseur of illusion and self-deceit. He knew they were not necessarily a poison, but often a nourishment, a kind of grace. The seediest dreams, tended like a campfire, served at least to make the emptier expanses of the soul more habitable. O'Neill explored the idea most thoroughly in The Iceman Cometh, which he wrote in 1939. Two years later, he stated it with a succinct force in Hughie, a one-act play that he planned as part of a series called "By Way of Obit...
...sleek John Hartnett, a 'Nova senior with Olympic aspirations, smashed the old IC4A two mile record with a breakneck 8:33 clocking. The soft-spoken Irishman then came back and anchored the Wildcat distance medley relay team that bettered the meet record with a time...
Teammate and fellow Irishman Tom Gregan galloped in with a mile time of 4:00.6 establishing another new meet record. He snapped a one-year old record held by Penn's Dennis Files...
...first entered Congress in 1953 with the immense advantage of being the protege of Democratic Whip John McCormack, a fellow Boston Irishman who was later to become Speaker of the House. McCormack got O'Neill to look at issues not just from the point of view of Boston, as he had been raised to do, but from a broad national perspective. In O'Neill's second term, McCormack got him a place on the powerful Rules Committee, a rare honor for a new man since the committee controlled the flow of legislation to the floor...
...charms of money, about $275,000. He inhabited at least three artist's dream palaces, including a 35-room chateau at Le Plessis near Tours. In his closet O'Neill had 75 pairs of shoes; in his drive, a Bugatti roadster. What more could even a black Irishman...