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Chief O'Neill's Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago ReviewFrancis O'Neill (1848-1936) was born in Tralibane, Co. Cork, in the southwest of Ireland and, like many of his countrymen at that time, emigrated to the US where he eventually settled in Chicago and climbed through the ranks of the police department to become a highly regarded Superintendent of Police in 1901. Arguably, O'Neill is best remembered in the US, however, for having compiled several large collections of Irish traditional music, which he published in the early 1900s, and which have since become a standard reference for Irish musicians and Irish music lovers the world over. O'Neill wrote a couple of books about his musical hobby, and those who have been able to procure reprints of "Irish Folk Music - A Fascinating Hobby" and "Irish Minstrels and Musicians" will be familiar his wonderful prose and gift as a story-teller. Now comes "Chief O'Neill's Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago" (Northwestern U Press, 2008), edited from a recently re-discovered manuscript by the most famous policeman in Irish music, where he writes in the same delightful style about his youth in Ireland, his adventures on the high seas, and his career in the Chicago police department. Those who have read Nicholas Carolan's excellent biography of O'Neill, "A Harvest Saved," will be familiar with some of the facts, but O'Neill's accounts, at times charming, humorous, or gripping, and always thoroughly engrossing, are well worth rediscovering through O'Neill's own words.Chief O'Neill's Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago Overview

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