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 Charles Henry St John O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill, Order of St Patrick, KP, Privy Council of Ireland, PC (I) (22 January 1779 – 12 February 1841) was an Irish politician, peer and landowner. He was born in 1779 to John O'Neill, 1st Viscount O'N ...

(1779-1841) *

John O'Neill, 3rd Viscount O'Neill John Bruce Richard O'Neill, 3rd Viscount O'Neill (30 December 1780 – 12 February 1855) was an Irish Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1802 to 1841 and then in the House of Lords. O'Neill was the son of John, 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 (; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ''The Turn out'', ''The Hurries'', 1798 Rebellion) was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland. The m ...

at the age of 58.

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1758 births 1793 deaths Irish poets 18th-century Irish women writers {{Ireland-writer-stub