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O'Hea may refer to: * Charles O'Hea (1814-1903), Irish Catholic priest active in Australia *
John Fergus O'Hea John Fergus O'Hea (''c.'' 1838 – 2 September 1922) was an Irish political cartoonist who sometimes published under the pseudonym Spex. Born in Cork, he was the son of James O'Hea, a barrister who was active in the Young Ireland movement and ha ...
(c. 1838–1922), Irish cartoonist * Matt O'Hea, Australian basketball player * Patrick O'Hea (1848-?), Irish politician *
Timothy O'Hea Timothy O'Hea Victoria Cross, VC (1843 – 1874), born in Schull, County Cork, was an Ireland, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for valour that can be awarded to United Kingdom, British and Common ...
(1843-1874), Irish soldier and explorer In
Munster Munster ( or ) is the largest of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south west of the island. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" (). Following the Nor ...
in Ireland the O'Heas of that province, where they had their own lands in Carbery known as ''Pobble O'Hea'', and their own castle, are earliest mentioned a sept of the
O'Donovan family The O'Donovan family is an ancient Irish noble family. Their patronymic surname derives from Irish ''Ó Donnabháin'', meaning the grandsons or descendants of Donnubán, referring to the 10th century ruler of the Uí Fidgenti, Donnubán mac C ...
, and genetic evidence fully supports the claim as they also belong to Y-DNA clade R-A2220. The O'Heas of Munster have since frequently anglicized their name to Hayes. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Heas were one of the chiefly families of the Corca Laoghdne tribe who in turn came from the Erainn tribe who were the second wave of
Celts The Celts ( , see Names of the Celts#Pronunciation, pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples ( ) were a collection of Indo-European languages, Indo-European peoples. "The Celts, an ancient Indo-European people, reached the apoge ...
to settle in Ireland from 500 to 100 BC.


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Dál gCais The Dalcassians ( ) are a Gaels, Gaelic Irish clan, generally accepted by contemporary scholarship as being a branch of the Déisi Muman, that became very powerful in Ireland during the 10th century. Their genealogies claimed descent from Tál ...
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Corcu Loígde The Corcu Loígde (Corcu Lóegde, Corco Luigde, Corca Laoighdhe, Laidhe), meaning Gens of the Calf Goddess, also called the Síl Lugdach meic Itha, were a kingdom centred in West County Cork who descended from the proto-historical rulers of M ...
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Hayes (surname) Hayes is an English language surname. In the United States Census, 1990, Hayes was the 100th most common surname recorded. The oldest record of the surname dates to 1197 in the ''Eynsham Cartulary of Oxfordshire'', where it appears in the form ' ...
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Irish clans Irish clans are traditional kinship groups sharing a common surname and heritage and existing in a lineage-based society, originating prior to the 17th century. A clan (or in Irish, plural ) included the chief and his Patrilineality, patrilineal ...


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