Tom O'Neill

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order-their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the sixties. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia-or dystopia-was just an acid trip away. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi-prosecutor of the Manson Family, and author of Helter Skelter-turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O'Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions:Who were Manson's real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties?Why didn't law enforcement, including Manson's own parole officer, act on their many chances to stop him?And how did Manson-an illiterate ex-con-turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers?O'Neill's quest for the truth led him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from San Francisco's summer of love to the shadowy sites of the CIA's mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with shady cover-ups and suspicious coincidences. The product of two decades of reporting, hundreds of new interviews, and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, CHAOS mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Steven Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. This is a book that overturns our understanding of a pivotal time in American history.

Irish folklore is alive and well, as Arthur "Dark" McLean finds when he's wrenched from his city life and Playstation into a fairy fort and a world of legendsUprooted from city life by the death of his father, Arthur "Dark" McLean is beckoned into a rath—a circular settlement built during the Middle Ages—as he wanders the fields near his new home. There, he meets people big and small whose magnificent stories of warriors, monsters, and the fairy people provide an escape from his crumbling school and home life and take him deep into the world of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Fianna. O’Neill’s powerful new tales of adventure, heroism, treachery, weakness, and redemption entwine with ancient Irish folklore as Dark realizes that he, like his eccentric uncle Connie, belongs to two very different worlds. Includes a map and glossary.

The murders of some Camden, New Jersey, drug dealers who are killed by someone impersonating a cop leads investigators, including Sergeant Stacey Smith, to missing attorney James Sullivan, a lawyer who has turned vigilante to to avenge the death of his wife and to destroy his former colleague Dennis O'Brien, who uses his firm to launder dirty money. A first novel.

The Battle of Clonmult

Grattan Fletcher and Suck Ryle are on the road, risking their dignity and occasionally their lives to renew the civic spirit of Ireland. Grattan is an idealistic, ageing civil servant who has enlisted Ryle, a skeptic prone to violent temper, in a quixotic quest to make a better Irish future for Grattan’s granddaughter. Along the way, they encounter politicians, protesters, and power brokers, some of whom are fascinated and others only flummoxed by Grattan’s wide sympathies and wild philosophical musings. In sprawling comic fashion, Grattan and Me addresses countless contemporary political, economic and ecological problems, allowing no person or institution to remain safe from ridicule.

Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O'Neill has traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to undertake ethnographic fieldwork with the Yolmo business owners and carpet weavers of the area. The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of his experiences working in Nepal during those turbulent times. In his autoethnographic memoir, O'Neill reflects on the complex relationships he developed with his research the carpet weavers, their families, and others in the communities which he studied. A compelling account of ethnographic fieldwork's personal dimension and the ethical and emotional challenges that come with maintaining relationships across substantial social distances, The Heart of Helambu illustrates an important aspect of anthropological research through O'Neill's engaging story.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was incorporated into international law in 1989. Since its adoption, it has been ratified by nearly all member nations. An outline of the basic rights of all persons under the age of 18, the Convention has various implications and its importance cannot be contested. This collection focuses on children's rights as defined by the U.N. Convention, and their relevance in both national and international contexts.The contributors discuss the Convention from different disciplinary perspectives, but are united in the belief that it is a tool to be utilized and contextualized by individuals, institutions, and communities. If there is a single conviction to be found throughout Children's Rights it is that the rights of the child are far too important to be left to states alone to provide and protect. To paint a detailed picture of the subject as a whole, the volume looks at situations in which the basic rights of children are often denied such as violent social conflict, parental abandonment, and social inequality. Consisting of thirteen essays by prominent scholars, it is an in-depth and interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of children's rights, and a tremendous resource for those working with children and youth in institutional and educational settings.

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” These words from Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming” provide Why the Center Can’t Hold with its organizing theme. And although Yeats was describing the grim atmosphere of post-World War I Europe, O’Neill regards the poem’s pronouncements as eerily predictive of the state of the world as we are currently observing it. O’Neill takes them as predictive of the agency in particular of the United States—the “Center”—in bringing about in the world the more general chaos we are now observing (relative to various refugee and migrant crises, the emergence of sophisticated and even postmodern forms of militant and cyber terrorism, banking and other monetary crises, environmental catastrophes under the aegis of climate change, the defunding of public higher education, the persistence of virulent forms of racism and other types of intolerance, the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, the marginalisation and even outright elimination of human labor forces, etc.). O’Neill provides historical analyses that illuminate why this is the case, and he also asks what changes in the United States — in its politics, in its socio-cultural formations, and in its beliefs and (supposedly common) values — might help us to avoid the seemingly inevitable (and lamentable) destruction that lies ahead.

Dark is a reluctant accomplice on his stone mad uncle Connie’s to secure the possessions of ‘friends’ from another time. It is to this other era that Dark returns when his uncle collapses with a mystery illness Night after night he travels across the fields to enter the forbidden fairy fort and the world of Fionn MacCumhaill. The world too of a young man called Matha whose quest is obstructed by bewitched cats, disgruntled warriors, unhelpful herons and various other unsettled types. Dark finds his friends moving away from him as his own quest gets complicated. He gets drawn into robbery, hacking hospital records and talking to birds as Connie’s condition worsens. Soon Dark, like Matha, sees that there are things he has to learn without understanding and he finally comes to realise the truth of his uncle's words, 'They walk among us.’ Comments on O’Neill’s previous title, Old The Lost Tales of Fionn Mac Cumhaill ‘Tom O’Neill brings hundreds of heroes, villains, and fabulous creatures to us in a tour-de-force of story telling.’ Gemma Hussey, former Minister of Education ‘There is nothing implausible about the emotions that course through these latter-day folktales that bring LED lighting to fairy raths; no false notes dim their sense of loss and betrayal or, indeed, O’Neill’s idiomatic style. This is a book straight from the oral tradition – it would sparkle if read aloud.’ Mary Shine Thompson, The Irish Times www.HeroicRealm.com

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Melbourne Essays In Italian Language and Literature In memory of Colin McCormick.

Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O’Neill has traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to undertake ethnographic fieldwork with the Yolmo business owners and carpet weavers of the area. The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of his experiences working in Nepal during those turbulent times. In his autoethnographic memoir, O’Neill reflects on the complex relationships he developed with his research the carpet weavers, their families, and others in the communities which he studied. A compelling account of ethnographic fieldwork’s personal dimension and the ethical and emotional challenges that come with maintaining relationships across substantial social distances, The Heart of Helambu illustrates an important aspect of anthropological research through O’Neill’s engaging story.

The Unknown collects his reward for his job. Revealing the purpose of his specific reward shows where he plans to take his quest. What route this quest will take is just another mystery of the Wasteland.

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Dublin 1981 Irish Academic Press. ISBN 0 7165 0099 X. Hardcover. Octavo, 219pp., cloth. Near Fine, no DJ.

This collection of reflections emerged unexpectedly during the pandemic as a way to keep a Catholic parish community connected.Parish priest Father Tom O'Neill began sending out a short reflection each week—a simple thought or insight. This book gathers those reflections in one place.Each reflection stands alone, meant to be read one at a time, not as a continuous story. Read one, then pause. Reflect not only on the words but also on your own thoughts and feelings. This quiet moment is where a deep conversation between creator and creature can happen—the “pearl of great price” Jesus spoke about. Here, you meet Jesus, and he meets you.These reflections are tools to help you connect with the life flowing inside all of us—the life Jesus “I have come to give you life, life in abundance.”People of all faiths—and none—will find value here because these reflections speak directly to the heart. They encourage you to explore your inner world, where life truly unfolds. While we experience life outwardly, its meaning is discovered within. We often understand life better looking back, though we live it moving forward—this is the reality we all share in a busy, pressured world that God loves so much he sent his only son to save.These reflections invite you to engage with two things we all the human heart and the world around us. They speak gently to both, offering hope and insight to a world that is often broken yet still beautiful.