medal with three clasps, King's medal with two clasps); Mohamand Campaign, 1908 (subsidiary despatches, medal and clasp); European War, 1914-1918; 191-4, raised and commanded 8th Royal Munster Fusiliers; 1915, raised and commanded with rank of Colonel. 3rd Line Groups 2nd London Division T.F. until their abolition, August, 1916; Nov., 1915, appointed to command the 1st London Emergency Brigade; 1916, raised and commanded 3rd Reserve Garrison Batt. Royal Irish Fusiliers (despatches, C.B.E., 1914, Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal); appointed Colonel in Regular Army Reserve of Officers on retirement; b. 24th June, 1866; son of the late J. Casimir O'Meagher, M.R.I.A., Officer d'Academie Française: Res.: 25 Wellington Road, Dublin; Clubs: Navv, London; United Service, Dublin.
O h-AODHA, Padraig, Irish scholar, teacher, writer and organiser; imprisoned, 1919, for Sinn Fein activities: interned, 1920, till December, 1921, in Ballykinlar. Res.: Berehaven, Cork.
O'NEILL, Baron (Unit. Kgd., 1868); Edward O'Neill, 2nd Baron; is a D.L. and J.P. for Co. Antrim; sat as M.P. for Co. Antrim, 1863-80; eldest son of Wm. O Neill, 1st Baron, and Henrietta (d. 1857), dau. of the late Hon. Robert Torrens a judge of the Common Pleas in Ireland; b. 31st Dec, 1839; s. his father 18th April, 1883; m. 30th June, Lady Louisa Coachrane, dau. of the 11th Earl of Dundonald, and has issue living one son and three daus. Res.: Shane's Castle, Co. Antrim; Carlton Club, London, S.W.; Ulster Club, Belfast.
O'NEILL, Major Edward Michael, D.S.O. (1916), M.B. (N.U.I.), Major R.A.M.C.; b. 1882. Educ.: St. Vincent's College, Castleknock; University College, Dublin. Served European War in charge of a field ambulance, 1914-18. Res.: Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
O'NEILL, Rev. George, S.J., M.A.; Prof. of English Language at University College, Dublin; son of late George F. O'Neill, LL.B.; b. Dungannon, 1863. Educ.: St. Stanislaus College, Tullamore; Milltown Park; Universities of Prague and Paris: M.A. with Honours of R.U. of Ireland, 1891; Fellow, 1900; a Vice-President of the National Literary Society Pubns.: Life of Mary of the Angels, 1910; Blaise Pascal: Ireland as Teacher of England and Scotland, and other pamphlets for C.T.S., etc.; Five Centuries of English Poetry, 1912; The Golden Legend (selection from Caxton's C.U.P.); Essays on Poetry; many articles in Irish and American periodicals. Address: 35 Lr Leeson Street, Dublin.
O'NEILL, Rev. John, D.Ph. (Louvain), B.D., B.C.L. (Maynooth). Educ. at Rockwell College, Cashel, at Thurles, and Maynooth; Professor of S. Scripture and of Philosophy at St. Patrick's College Carlow, 1905-8; took courses at Universities of Fribourg and Munich, 1911-12; Professor of Philosophy at Maynooth since 1908. Pubns.: Contributor on Philosophical subjects to the "Irish Ecclesiastical Record," and to the "Irish Theological Quarterly"; b. 1880. Res.: St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.
O'NEILL, Rev. Patrick, D.D.. D.C.L. Educ. at Maynooth: Canon Law at the Roman College; ordained Priest of the diocese of Limerick, 1917; Professor of Theology at Maynooth since 1920; appointed to Second Chair of Canon Law at Maynooth, 1921. Res.: St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare.
O'NEILL, Right Hon. Laurence (M.P. for Mid Div. of Dublin City from 1922), Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1916 to 1923.
O'NEILL, Maire, actress; made her first appearance on the stage as a member of the Irish National Theatre Society, at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin; made her first appearance in London at the Great Queen Street (now Kingsway) Theatre; 10th May, 1907, as Margaret Flaherty in "The Playboy of the Western World": during her connection with the Irish Company, played the following, among other parts; Fand in the play of that name, Mary Cushin in "The Gaol Gate," A Woman in "On Bailie's Strand," Bridget in "The Hour Glass," Min and Marvanne in "The Country Dressmaker," Biddy Lally in "The Unicorn from the Stars," Mona in "Dervorgilla," Mrs. Donohoe in "The Workhouse Ward," The Woman in "The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet," Deirdre in " Deirdre of the Sorrows," Conal's Wife in "The Green Helmet," Anna Crilly in "Thomas Muskerry," Mary Hurley in "Harvest," Peggy Mahon in "The Image," Mrs. McCarthy in "The Cross Roads," Ellen Barton in "The Casting Out of Martin Whelan," Dan's Wife in "The Deliverer," Queen Cahafra in "King Argimines," Mrs. Rainey in "Mixed Marriage," Johanna in "The Piedish,* Cracked Mary in "The Full Moon," Mrs Shillane in "The Clancy Name," Countess Cathleen in the play of that name, and Maggie Gather in "The Magnanimous Lover"; leaving the Irish Company, she appeared at the St. James's Theatre, Jan. 1913, as Zerlina in "Turandot"; joined the Company of the Repertory Theatre, Liverpool, March, 1913, and appeared aa the Mother of Hannele in "Hannele," Kalleia in "The Perplexed Husband," Freida Conyngham in "The Conynghams," Candida in the play of that name, and Nora Burke in "The Shadow of the