Eugene O'Neill, Irish Writer Series, Episode 223

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Eugene O'Neill, Irish Writer Series, Episode 223

Eugene O'Neill was the first American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was given this honor "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy," according to the Nobel Prize website.

Eugene O’Neill’s Irish heritage was a central, self-acknowledged force in his identity, his worldview, and his dramatic work. In 1946 he told his son Eugene Jr.: “One thing that explains more than anything else about me is the fact that I’m Irish. And, strangely…