Rants, Riffs, Politics, People, Poetry and a Few Things Irish
“A peppery and unfailingly compelling set of reactions to one calamitous year. O’Neill offers a collection of thoughts and reflections on the year 2022” – Kirkus Review
A bit of Doggerel
“A charming depiction of simple pleasures.
In an illustrated poetic narrative for all ages, a charismatic hound takes stock of his domain as he romps through his daily constitutional.”
– Kirkus Review
“The tale’s biggest strength lies in the sheer amount of breathtaking, heart-stopping action and adventure, which creates a relentlessly paced, adrenaline-inducing thrill ride that will have readers on the edges of their seat until the very end. ”
– Kirkus Review
One man’s day-by-day reflections on the first year of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
“An intelligent and occasionally caustic survey of recent events.” – Kirkus Review
Continue ReadingIt’s a wilderness River that winds for fifty-odd miles through the Lewis & Clark National Forest, often bounded by towering canyon walls. Once you get on it, you can’t get off.”
Continue ReadingThe college class of 1970 was the first to graduate with a diploma and a draft number. This Dartmouth memoir is the story of that momentous time – a senior year of living most dangerously.
Continue ReadingThe River Wild was an original screenplay inspired by a six-day rafting trip I took with friends down Montana’s Smith River. It’s a wilderness river that winds through the Lewis & Clark National Forest, and for the most part once you get on it, you can’t get off for fifty-odd miles.
Continue ReadingWhen a Scottish friend told me about the fierce rivalry between Glasgow’s “Old Firm” – Glasgow Rangers (the Protestant club) and Glasgow Celtic (the Catholic club) – I researched the rivalry on location and came away with the story I wanted to tell.
Continue ReadingAll screenwriters have a steamer trunk of unmade screenplays, even the “father of modern film,” Jean Renoir, a friend of my father. I know this because when Pop died, I found a screenplay he had co-written with Renoir that never became a film… in a “steamer trunk” file in Pop’s Turkey Hill office.
Continue ReadingHindenburg: A character and history driven story.
Million Dollar Bass: A heartfelt and humorous father & son, bass fishing adventure .
Ruined: A Mafia hit. An innocent man. An FBI framing and cover-up. A hero’s journey.
There’s music in the family tree. My Irish grandmother, Essie Quaid, was a Limerick opera singer who sang with famed Irish tenor John McCormack, and on one occasion with the amateur tenor, James Joyce.
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