Eoghan Ó Donnghaile

Who is Eoghan Ó Donnghaile?

Eoghan Ó Donnghaile, aka Owen O'Donnelly, Irish poet, fl. c. 1690.

Eugene O'Curry wrote of Ó Donnghaile in his Manners and Customs, saying that:

"About 1680 a controversy sprang up among some of the bards of Ulster as to what race by ancient right belonged the armorial bearing of Ulster – the Red Hand – belonged. Eoghan Ó Donnghaile took part in the controversy and claimed the Red Hand for the O'Neills of Tyrone."

Robin Flower believed that Ó Donnghaile was a member of the bardic family that had fostered Séan 'an díomais' Ó Néill, and there is a lament for Shane – Ceist ar eolchibh iath Éireann/A question for the learned of Ireland ... – attributed to Ó Donnghaile. Shane's fosterage among the Ó Donnghaile's of Ballydonnelly, County Tyrone, lead to him been known as Shane Ó Donnghaileach.

Seosamh Ó Dufaigh held that he may be identical with the Eoghan Ó Donnghaile listed on the 1704 registration of clergy for the parish of Armagh, a priest, the author of Comhairle Mhic Clámha, and Mo choin do theacht Fheidhlime ... Ó Dufaigh sees the latter as saultation to his kinsman, Pádraig Ó Donnghaile, aka Feilim Brady, The Bard of Armagh.

Ó Donnghaile is the author of:

⁕Ceist ar eolchibh iath Éireann/A question for the learned of Ireland ...