John e o neill biography

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    Bio

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    John O'Neill has published a novel, a collection of short stories and fyra collections of poems. He has won several poetry awards, including, most recently, first prize in the Prairie Fire/McNally Robinson 2023 Poetry Contest; he also won, way back when, a prärie Fire Long Poem Prize, the Scarborough Arts Council Poetry Prize, a short-listing in the League of Canadian Poets Chapbook Competition, and three nominations for National Magazine Awards. His stories have won a Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize and a ‘Maggie’ (Manitoba Magazine Award), and been long-listed for the CBC story prize. His collection Goth Girls of Banff was short-listed for the UBC/HarperCollins Prize, the ReLit Award, and the Alberta Booksellers’ Association Trade Fiction Book of the Year.  His work has appeared in Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Event, Prism International, Grain, The Antigonish Review, The University of Toronto Review,

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    John O'Neill (guitarist)

    Northern Ireland-born punk/new wave musician (born 1957)

    Musical artist

    John namn O'Neill (born 26 August 1957) is a musician who fryst vatten the rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter of the punk rock/new wave band the Undertones.[1] O'Neill, along with his younger brother Vincent and friends Feargal Sharkey, Michael Bradley and Billy Doherty, founded the Undertones in 1975, but Vincent O'Neill was replaced the following year with his younger brother Damian O'Neill, who became the band's lead guitarist.[2]

    John O'Neill wrote the majority of the band's singles and a number of album tracks[3] (occasionally collaborating with his brother Damian or Michael Bradley). Undertones songs written by John O'Neill include the singles "Teenage Kicks", "Jimmy Jimmy", "Here Comes the Summer" and "You've Got My Number", and such notable album tracks as "When Saturday Comes", "I Gotta Getta", "Girls That Don't Talk" and "You're Welcome".

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    John P. O'Neill

    American counterterrorism expert (1952–2001)

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

    John Patrick O'Neill (February 6, 1952 – September 11, 2001) was an American counter-terrorism expert who worked as a special agent and eventually a special agent in charge in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 1995, O'Neill began to intensely study the roots of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing after he assisted in the capture of Ramzi Yousef, who was the leader of that plot.

    He subsequently learned of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and investigated the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia and the 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen. Partly due to personal friction he had within the FBI and federal government, O'Neill left the Bureau in August 2001.[1] He became the head of security at the World Trade Center, where he died at age 49 while helping others to evacuate the South Tower during the September 11 atta