But Is O'Neill Irish or American?

     I could make the case that O'Neill focussed on the American dream/drama. Desire is so totally what life was like in Sherman, CT in the 19th Century, for example. Some sons favored, some not, some lighting out for the territory, falling fertility rates, land shortage-all typical of 19th Century New England dying out as an agrarian society.

     Just a few shreds of evidence that O'Neill saw himself as a dark Irishman...