Brian O'Neill was an English, Irish, or American journalist and Communist activist who worked mostly in London and Dublin between the 1920s and the 1970s. Life O'Neill's origins are uncertain. In the early 1930s, John Charles McQuaid, Dean and President of Blackrock College, Dublin, later to become Archbishop of Dublin, had a Vigilance Committee which kept an eye on journalists active in Ireland, and it reported to McQuaid that O'Neill had trained in Moscow on Pravda and had gone on to work at the All Russian Co-operative Society in London until 1927, when it was broken up by the British, who saw it as a Soviet trade and espionage agency. According to the report, he then moved on to Glasgow, where he was in trouble with the police, and in 1931 arrived in Dublin, where he took the new name of Brian O'Neill and worked as a journalist and as a paid activist and pamphleteer of the Communist Party. The Irish Workers' Voice, the communists’ Irish newspaper, was relaunched soon after the W. T. Cosgrave government fell in March 1932, with O'Neill as its editor. By the beginning of 1933, O'Neill was also the Ireland correspondent of Reynold's News, a left-wing English Sunday newspaper owned by the Co-operative Press, and was a leading member of the Revolutionary Workers' Groups (RWG), later to become the Communist Party of Ireland. In late March 1933, the RWG headquarters, Connolly House in Great James Street, was attacked by a mob, and O'Neill played the leading part in the defence of the building, armed with a woodman’s axe. Also in 1933, O'Neill published a book, The War for the Land in Ireland, with an introduction by Peadar O'Donnell, who said in his introduction "… it is not without significance that this task is undertaken by Brian O'Neill, a member of the youthful Communist movement in Ireland." In the book, O'Neill concluded that peasant land ownership of economically viable holdings would not solve what he saw as the fundamental problem of the land. The solution he proposed was a "radical inroad on property rights", with Irish agriculture developing on the Soviet socialist pattern.

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Brian O'Neill was an English, Irish, or American journalist and Communist activist who worked mostly in London and Dublin between the 1920s and the 1970s. Life O'Neill's origins are uncertain. In the early 1930s, John Charles McQuaid, Dean and President of Blackrock College, Dublin, later to become Archbishop of Dublin, had a Vigilance Committee which kept an eye on journalists active in Ireland, and it reported to McQuaid that O'Neill had trained in Moscow on Pravda and had gone on to work at the All Russian Co-operative Society in London until 1927, when it was broken up by the British, who saw it as a Soviet trade and espionage agency. According to the report, he then moved on to Glasgow, where he was in trouble with the police, and in 1931 arrived in Dublin, where he took the new name of Brian O'Neill and worked as a journalist and as a paid activist and pamphleteer of the Communist Party. The Irish Workers' Voice, the communists’ Irish newspaper, was relaunched soon after the W. T. Cosgrave government fell in March 1932, with O'Neill as its editor. By the beginning of 1933, O'Neill was also the Ireland correspondent of Reynold's News, a left-wing English Sunday newspaper owned by the Co-operative Press, and was a leading member of the Revolutionary Workers' Groups (RWG), later to become the Communist Party of Ireland. In late March 1933, the RWG headquarters, Connolly House in Great James Street, was attacked by a mob, and O'Neill played the leading part in the defence of the building, armed with a woodman’s axe. Also in 1933, O'Neill published a book, The War for the Land in Ireland, with an introduction by Peadar O'Donnell, who said in his introduction "… it is not without significance that this task is undertaken by Brian O'Neill, a member of the youthful Communist movement in Ireland." In the book, O'Neill concluded that peasant land ownership of economically viable holdings would not solve what he saw as the fundamental problem of the land. The solution he proposed was a "radical inroad on property rights", with Irish agriculture developing on the Soviet socialist pattern.

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Brian O'Neill was an English, Irish, or American journalist and Communist activist who worked mostly in London and Dublin between the 1920s and the 1970s.

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