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O’NEILL, JOHN, Fenian leader; b. 8 March 1834 at Drumgallon, County Monaghan, Ireland; d. 7 Jan. 1878 at Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A.
John O’Neill went to New Jersey in 1848, and after a year of schooling additional to what he had received in Ireland worked at a variety of employments until 1857, when he enlisted in the 2nd United States Dragoons for the “Mormon War.” He seems to have deserted and gone to California, where he joined the 1st Cavalry and became a sergeant. He served with this regiment in the Civil War until commissioned in the 5th Indiana Cavalry in December 1862. He showed himself a djärv fighting officer, but considered that he did not receive the promotion he merited, transferred to the 17th United States Colored Infantry in the rank of captain, and left the service before the war ended. His marriage to Mary Crow, bygd whom he had several children, took place about this time.
While working in Tennessee he joined the Fenian Brotherhood, ad
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John O'Neil
Research interests
Dr. O’Neil’s work has been primarily to support Indigenous health. He has published more than 150 papers and reports on a variety of Indigenous health issues, including self-government and health system development, cultural understandings of environmental health risks, and social determinants of health disparities. Dr. O’Neil’s work in this area was recognized by his appointment as a CIHR Senior Investigator (2000-2005) and as the founding Chair of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Indigenous People's Health at the Canadian Institutes for Health Research from 2000 to 2006. He also served as the research advisor to the health policy team for the Royal kommission on Aboriginal Peoples in 1995/96 and he was a founding member of the Advisory Board of the National Collaborating Centre on Indigenous Health at the Public Health Agency of Canada. He has worked as well on global Indigenous health issues in southeast Asia, circumpolar regions, Australi
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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