Bill O'Neal has performed publicly for many years, both here and in Ireland. His long term engagements include Fiddlers Green in Co. Down, Sweeney's Saloon, Billy's Irish Pub/Tir na nOg, Phillips' Tavern and The Historic Eagle Tavern in Trenton; Shenanigan's in Manasquan; The Dubliner/Dublin House in Red Bank; Ye Olde Anglesea Inn in Wildwood; and, most recently, Dúbh Linn Square in Bordentown.

Bill  has performed regularly with life-long-friend Joe Kramer, Tom McCloskey, James McCarthy, Mike McKinstrey, James Briney, Victor "The Vicar"  Monaghan, Paul Olko, Ed "Animal" Arnold, George Zenowicz, "Irish" Joe McMancuso, "Irish" Billy Briggs, Jody Giambelluca, Nancy Ferguson, Carl Dougherty, James "The Wee, Fat Fenian Fellow from the Falls Road" Watson, Bob Tighue, Paul Kennedy, Andy Koontz, Chris Finnegan and others. A longtime member of Ewing Presbyterian Church and its choir, Bill now sings tenor in the St. Mark Church choir.

Bill is a high school teacher of English, technology liason to the National Writing Project at Rider University, a Dodge Poetry fellow, vice president of The Friends of the Wm Green Farmhouse, and a member of the Historic Preservation Advisory Committee to the Lawrence Township Planning Board. He, his wife, and their children live in Central New Jersey. Their Federal Period home is listed on the state and national registers of historic places.

photos by Bill

“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”—Edmund Burke (1790)

photo by Kevin McGonigle

photo by Bill

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