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Henrietta O'Neill
Henrietta O'Neill (1758 – September 1793) was an Irish poet. The only daughter of Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan, and his wife, the former Susannah Hoare, she was born Henrietta Boyle. Her father died in 1759 and her mother later married Thomas Brudenell-Bruce; her younger half-siblings included Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury. She married John O'Neill in 1777, when he was an Irish MP. Henrietta O'Neill was a friend of the English novelist and poet Charlotte Smith. She was also an amateur actor and painter. Her best known poems are "Ode to the Poppy" and "Written on Seeing her Two Sons at Play". Her two children were: * Charles O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill (1779-1841) *John O'Neill, 3rd Viscount O'Neill (1780-1855) O'Neill died in Portugal in 1793, while still in her thirties. Her husband outlived her, becoming a baron in 1793 and a viscount in 1795, but was killed during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 The Irish Rebellion of 1798 ( ga, Éirí Amach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest on Earth. Geopolitically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million living in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan
Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan (27 January 1729 – 16 September 1759) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Boyle was the eldest son of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and his first wife, Henrietta, daughter of George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney. He was the Member of Parliament for Cork County (Parliament of Ireland constituency), Cork County in the Irish House of Commons between 1756 and his death in 1759.E. M. Johnston-Liik''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.72 (Retrieved 19 January 2023). In 1753 he married Susanna Brudenell-Bruce, Countess of Ailesbury, Susanna Hoare, the daughter of Henry Hoare. They had one child, Henrietta O'Neill, Henrietta Boyle. As Boyle predeceased his father, the earldom was inherited by Boyle's younger brother, Hamilton Boyle, 6th Earl of Cork, Hamilton Boyle. References 1729 births 1759 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Boyle family, Charles British courtesy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
