Eoghan Ó Donnghaile (Owen O'Donnelly) (

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c. 1690) was an Irish poet.

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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."

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believed that Ó Donnghaile was a member of the bardic family that had fostered Séan 'an díomais' Ó Néill ( Shane O'Neill), 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 Donnghailes of Ballydonnelly,

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, led to him being known as Shane Ó Donnghaileach. Seosamh Ó Dufaigh held that he may be identical with the Eoghan Ó Donnghaile listed in the 1704 registration of clergy for the parish of

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, a priest and the author of ''Comhairle Mhic Clámha'', and ''Mo choin do theacht Fheidhlime ...'' Ó Dufaigh sees the latter as salutation to his kinsman, Pádraig Ó Donnghaile, also known as Feilim Brady,

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. Ó Donnghaile is the author of: * ''Ceist ar eolchibh iath Éireann/A question for the learned of Ireland ...'' * ''Trom na gartha sa a Leith Chuinn/Sad these shouts, oh Leith Chuinn ...'', a lament. * ''Tuirseach damh aig eirghe lae/Woeful to me the rising of the day ...'' * ''Is nar an sgelsa teachd da thigh/Bad is the new that came to your house ...'', a reply to Dermod mac Lewis Mac an Bhaird. Ó Donnghaile is ascribed as author of: * ''Mo choin do theacht Fheidhlime/Welome to you Feilimidh ...'' * ''Comhairle Mhic Clámha/MacClave's Advice''

References

* O'Reilly (1820), ''A Chronological Account of Nearly Four Hundred Irish Writers'', Dublin. *

(1873), ''Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish'', Dublin. * C. O'Rahilly (1925), ''Tóruigheach Gruaidhe Griansholus'', London. *

(1926), ''Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the British Museum'', volume 11 * Seosamh Ó Dufaigh & B. Rainey (1981), ''Comhairle Mhic Clamha o Achadh na Muilleann'', Lille, pp. 24–42. * Diarmaid Ó Doibhlin (2000), ''Tyrone's Gaelic Literary Legacy'', pp. 414–417, op.cit. 17th-century Irish-language poets 18th-century Irish-language poets 17th-century Irish poets {{Ireland-hist-stub