Alexandre O'Neill

Alexandre Manuel Vahia de Castro O'Neill de Bulhões, GOSE (Lisbon, 19 December 1924 - Lisbon, 21 August 1986) was a Portuguese writer and poet of Irish descent. He was born at 39 Fontes Pereira de Melo Avenue the son of José António Pereira de Eça O'Neill (Lisbon, c. 1890 - ?), a bank worker, and wife Maria da Glória Vahia de Barros de Castro (17 March 1905 - aft. October 1989), and paternal grandson of writer, poet, conferencewoman and journalist Maria O'Neill. He had an older sister, Maria Amélia Vahia de Castro O'Neill de Bulhões, who became a Nun. He was a self-taught person and worked as a publicitary. Surrealist and concretist poet and writer, and a publicist, who collaborated in many periodicals. In 1948, O'Neill was among the...