As Kings of Cenél nEógain, they are historically the most prominent family of the Northern Uí Néill, along with the O'Donnell and O'Doherty. Driven by contrary winds to the east, they took shelter in the Seine estuary and were told by the Spanish to pass the winter in the Spanish Netherlands and not to proceed to Spain itself. In Ireland this rhetoric was directed at the English-speaking descendants of the Norman conquerors whose support was crucial to the success of O'Neill's cause. In an attempt to characterize them, the English began to refer to the group of brothers as "the Mac-Shanes" which in Gaelic meant "the sons of Shane". This blog is focused on the descendants of John O'Neill and Esther Ashmore of County Carlow, Ireland. His eldest, Henry, was King of Tyrone from 1455 to 1489 and was the grandfather of Conn Bacach. [11], Although O'Neill was confirmed in his title and core estates, upon his return to Ireland he immediately fell into dispute with Chichester's Dublin administration. There is a later account of the O'Neills acquiring the comital title of Clanawley. He uses the title and style of The O'Neill of Clanaboy. Notes. Owen was educated by Franciscan monks but also trained for war from an early age, joining his uncle, father and brothers in the Nine Years War (1594-1603) against the English occupation of Ulster. Holohan, Renagh. Féilim Ó Néill 13. He married Manuela de Castilla Quevedo, the daughter of a Spanish noble family, in 1819. His wife later remarried to the famous spy novelist, Ian Fleming. HUGH O'NEILL, of the Fews, a brother of Henry who is No. Ferdocha or Mathew O'Neill, natural son of Conn Bacach the 1st Earl, was the first to hold the title of Baron Dungannon. Today the clan recognizes McShane, Johnson, Johnston, and Shane as elements of the family and are still active and viable in Ulster, America, and Australia. [30] The earl succeeded in capturing and imprisoning another three over the remainder of the decade until there were only two possibly three of the brothers and nephews hiding out in the Glenconkeyne forest in eastern Tyrone. They are a dominant family to this day in Counties Antrim, Louth, and eastern Armagh. [4] The portion north of Slieve Gallion, was given to Niall Mac Lochlainn (McLaughlin), with the portion south of Slieve Gallion, given to Áed Ua Néill. Wild Geese in Spanish Flanders,1582–1700, B. Jennings. Soon after he took the English throne, Henry decided to grasp Ireland via a reputed Papal Bull that claimed to grant the lordship of Ireland to English kings. Hugh O'Neill came from a line of the O'Neill dynasty – derbfine – that the English authorities recognized as the legitimate successors to the Chiefs of the O'Neills and to the title of Earl of Tyrone. 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Hugh O'Neill and the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland - Volume 36 Issue 1 - Hiram Morgan. That family had saved them as babies when their father had been killed nearby and had since been referred to as the Clan Shanes. As a descendant of the first Viscount Chichester he is in remainder to the barony and viscountcy of Chichester and, according to a special patent in the letters patent, the earldom of Donegall, titles held by his kinsman the Marquess of Donegall. 6. This was spurred by the 1537 Rising of Silken Thomas Fitzgerald. Upon that Letters Patent, Pope Leo XIII, the King of Spain, and the King of Portugal all recognized Jorge O'Neill as the Prince of Clanaboy, Tyrone, Ulster, as the Count of Tyrone, and the Head of the Royal House of O'Neill and all of its septs. These houses included the Gaelic noble families of O'Donnell, Maguire, O'Quinn, MacDonald, and MacLean. [11] Under the 1603 peace agreement most of his land had been given to his former Brehon law tenants. The Bruce Invasion of Ireland devastated the Norman Earldom of Ulster, which held sway over eastern Ulster and most of its north coast all the way to Derry. 1. The Crown therefore supported Hugh O'Neill as the rightful claimant and as an ally in Gaelic controlled Ulster. in the case of the Bann Fishery, the government eventually established that his entitlement to the benefit of that property was nullified on account of the original Anglo-Norman conquest in 1172, a precedent of significant implications for the former Gaelic polity. The last mention of a Conde de Tyrone is in 1691, and Walsh concludes that he died not long thereafter. Part of a fresco in the Vatican depicting a coronation ceremony in Rome in 1608. [10] This policy was a success and, even though Sir John Norris sought to bring him to heel, O'Neill managed to defer English attempts on his territory for more than two years. When the former Crown loyalist Sir Cahir O'Doherty launched O'Doherty's Rebellion by the Burning of Derry in 1608 it raised hopes of a return, but the rebellion was quickly defeated. 6. Dublin POS no. Brian remained in Spanish exile until 1666. Aodh, his second son started the line of the Fews. Daniel Ó Néill … They include: Viscount of Tyrone, Viscount of Montoy, Baron of Strabane, and Lord of the Clannaboy. Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society. While it is believed MacShane died of exposure, there has been some speculation as to whether O'Neill had the O'Byrnes kill MacShane when they found him, to remove him as a political opponent of O'Neill. Conn wanted to be named the Earl of Ulster, but Henry refused that royal honor out of spite for Conn's previous warfare against his crown. Compare DNA and explore genealogy for Hugh O'Neill born 1859 Killyclogher, County Tyrone, Ireland, United Kingdom died 1904 Anderston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom including ancestors + descendants + DNA connections + more in the free family tree community. Féilim Ó Néill 11. The sept of McShane is a closely related branch of the Tír Eoghain O'Neills. [15] His grandson William anglicized the name to Johnson. He was able to secure allies such as the Earls of Ormonde and Leicester. [52] Although Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne states that Anradhán gained his lands through conflict, it is possible that he secured these lands in Argyll through marriage to their heiress. Jorge Maria O'Neill 3. The brothers were dealt a blow in 1590 when the Earl of Tyrone captured and hanged three of the brothers. In April 1596, O'Neill received promises of help from Spain, and thereafter chose to temporize with the authorities, professing his loyalty to the crown whenever circumstances required. Afterwards, Hugh ruthlessly murdered all the MacShanes, one of whom, Niall Garbhalach, he reputedly hanged over a Hawthorn tree with his bare hands. The O'Neills' independent stature within Ulster began to change with the ascent of King Henry VIII in England in 1509. By the early-19th century most of the official documents fail to show any McShane families in their former territory as all of them had converted to the surname Johnson. Art, his third son, was King of Tyrone 1509–1514. There were other titles laid out in the will of Don Juan (John/Shane/Sean) O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone in 1660. Arms of Sir John Higgins recorded by Athlone Herald, 1724. He died on 7 September 1832 and is reportedly buried in the Roman Catholic Church of Frederiksted, Saint Croix.[27]. [49], Several Scottish families may descend from an O'Neill dynast named Anradhán. Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 1995, edited by Charles Kidd and David Williamson, published by Debrett's Peerage Limited, and Macmillan Reference Books, London, 1995, The Concordat between Primate John Mey and Henry O'Neill (1455). The traditional title of the head of this family branch is The O'Neill Buidhe or The O'Neill of Clannabuidhe. pg. Hugh is usually referred to as the 2nd Earl of Tyrone (, The genealogy Hiram Morgan has prepared notes on Matthew as "affiliated". [8] In fact both Sir Henry and his daughter Rose willed the Shane's Castle estate to the descendants of Prince Con mac Brian. After the Plantation of Ulster, some O'Neill families converted to the Church of Ireland and began to intermarry with the new nobility coming from England. The dominant Gaelic and Norman-Irish leaders were in tune with their contemporary peers of the Middle Ages in terms of education, international trade, and diplomacy. [11] At this point the controversial Jesuit, James Archer, was effectively operating as his representative at the Spanish court. They gained little support en route. Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan, was the youngest son of the second Baron O'Neill, while Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, was the youngest brother of the third Baron. British Museum, Harl. It is curious to reflect that the two men who are accounted the greatest representatives of the race of the O’Neills— Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, and Owen Roe O’Neill —may neither of them have been members of the O’Neill family, but were possibly the offspring of some otherwise unknown clansman of … Overseas branches flourish, such as in South Africa where descendants are referred to as Nels, mainly due to the influence of the Afrikaner people of the country. Some O'Neill families today claim descent from this Henry O'Neill, but contemporary documentation show that he died without any leaving any descendants. The Great Hugh O’Neill (1550-1616) was the second Earl of Tyrone. Hugh O'Neill (Irish: Aodh Mór Ó Néill; literally Hugh The Great O'Neill; c. 1550 – 20 July 1616), was an Irish Gaelic lord, Earl of Tyrone (known as the Great Earl ) and was later created The Ó Néill Mór, Chief of the Name. Hugh O'Neill was entitled only to those demesne lands and fixed rents, ... Turlough McArt O'Neill, the descendants of Shane O'Neill and the descendants of Turlough Brasselagh O'Neill. 706, Edt by Robert Mahaffy, London, 1905. Eventually he left and actually went on the attack. It is through this marriage that the present day Barons of Shane's Castle trace their lineage to the royal family of O'Neill. After 1241, the O'Neill lineage dominated and displaced other lineage, using the disruption of the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169 to their benefit and were able to consolidate. Compare DNA and explore genealogy for Niall Mor O'Neill born abt. They seemed to have preferred fulfilling the solemn pledge of their ancestor, Donald O'Neill, King of Ulster, to 'fight out as long as life should last' rather than adapt themselves to altered circumstances, as the descendants of Shane MacBryan had wisely done," according to Burke's Peerage. 23370". O'Neill was four times married, to Judith O'Donell, Mabel Bagnal, Catherine Magennis, and a woman whose name is not recorded. Royal O'Neill, Desmond O'Neill, 1996. p. 221, Jury list of the Attaintment of the estate of the Earl of Tyrone, 1614. The O'Neills of Martinique settled in the early 1700s; in the next century, they claimed to be Count of Tyrone and lineally descended from Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. His father had been born a McShane but translated his name, allowing his son to succeed to his uncles properties. After the defeat of the Jacobite forces, the family was "attainted" as Irish rebels in 1693, and Brian "Og" left with the Army of King James II and went into exile in France. Clan Ó Ceallaigh-related to the Uí Néill. The English courtiers were greatly incensed at the gracious reception accorded by James to these notable rebels. (Dublin: James Duffy. They sent troops and supported Edward in his attempt to become King of Ireland in 1315. [11] Elizabeth was displeased by the favourable conditions allowed to O'Neill, [11] as she pointed out, if she had intended to simply abandon Ireland she would not have needed to send Essex there,[citation needed] and by Essex's treatment of him as an equal. Moore et al. This page was last edited on 2 March 2021, at 07:48. Lord O'Neill was the patrilineal great-great-great-grandson of John Chichester, younger brother of Arthur Chichester, 2nd Earl of Donegall. Gaelic law allowed for chiefships and property to descend through tanistry, and thus the descendants of Earl Hugh's brothers acted as The O'Neills of Tyrone, and called themselves Earl of Tyrone by Spanish grant, for the rest of the century. [26], Tulio O'Neill y O'Kelly married Catherine O'Keefe y Whalen and became the parents of Arturo O'Neill y O'Keefe and Tulio O'Neill y O'Keefe. An O'Byrne search party found the two buried in snow and close to death near Glendalough. Micheline Kearney Walsh (1988). By the end of the 17th century, the Earl's line failed in exile, and the "Mac Shane" line legally inherited the chiefship and title. A good example is Major General Sir William Johnson, Bt. In 1171, King Henry II of England came to Ireland to remove the authority of the English lords in Ireland. From 1232 until 1616, the O'Neill were sovereign kings of Tír Eógain, holding territories in the north of Ireland; particularly around modern County Tyrone, County Londonderry and County Antrim, all in modern Northern Ireland. Upon the death of Shane, his tanist and cousin, Turlough Luineach O'Neill became the paramount Ulster chief. In April 1608, they proceeded to Rome, where they were welcomed and hospitably entertained by Pope Paul V.[11] The journey to Rome was recorded in great detail by Tadhg Ó Cianáin. Sixteen years later in 1583 a confederation of the brothers met at the court of their uncle, the Chief of the MacLean clan in the Scottish isles. The majority of the descendants will be from Hugh O'Neill and Deborah Joyce, who left Ireland, ca 1805, and settled in what is now Noble County, Ohio. Brian's son Edmond was granted control of Lisdawericke, Megin, Cnoghan, Tollohiny Dirrilghta, Knockmcgallcrum & Gortnesillagh. His death in 1602 presented leadership of the O'Donnell family to his younger brother, Rory, the Earl of Tyrconnell. [18][19] Following Henry's death, Felix O'Neill[20] (c1720-1792) was identified by contemporaries as the "person to whom the Lordship of the Fews in the North of Ireland in right and justice belongeth". Don Arturo O'Neill y O'Keefe was born in March 1782 on St. Croix and married Joanna Chabert Heyliger there in April 1802. Oxford University Press. According to John Belton O'Neall, he died circa 1788 in Duval County, Florida, "killed in an attempt to seize an outlaw soon after his removal [from South Carolina to Florida, just after the end of the Revolution]." 349-356, "No. As a group they were very young. The O'Neills are represented, and are the current Presidents of, the Standing Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains. [18] While the family's precise link to the historical O'Neills of the Fews therefore remains unclear, their descent can be traced back to a certain 'Red' Henry O'Neill and his wife Hanna née O'Kelly, the daughter of counselor John O'Kelly of Keenagh, County Roscommon, whose children relocated to Spain in the 1750s and 1760s. After nearly a decade of warfare with the English forces in Ireland, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, surrendered in 1603, just days after the death of his enemy Queen Elizabeth. The grandson of Jorge and present Prince of Clanaboy, Hugo, has not pressed his senior claim to the entire House of O'Neill out of respect for his O'Neill chief cousins and their own histories. Subsequent generations and kings made their own modifications resulting in the current coat of arms. Furthermore, the MacShanes had lost a valuable ally in the Fitzgeralds of Desmond, following their defeated in the Desmond Wars. [citation needed] Though entirely supported by the Dublin administration in his early years, he seems to have been unsure whether his position as Chief of the O'Neills was best secured by alliance with the English or by rebellion against the advance of their government into Ulster from 1585. [21][22], Upon news of his death, the court poets of Ireland engaged in the Contention of the bards. [25], Henry and Hanna O'Neill became the parents of Arthur O'Neill in 1736. 1864–66, Dublin. The London Gazette. Ireland. From 1312 to 1318, their kings were staunch supporters of King Robert the Bruce and his brother Edward Bruce. [17] Early in 1603, Elizabeth instructed Mountjoy to open negotiations with the rebellious chieftains, and O'Neill made his submission in the following April to Mountjoy, who skilfully concealed news of the death of the Queen until the negotiations had concluded. [citation needed], O'Neill ruled as a sort of absolute monarch. But owing to poor communications with the besieged Spanish and a crucial failure to withstand the shock of a daring English cavalry charge, O'Neill's army was quickly dispersed. Despite their non-participation in the war, the O'Neill estates were seized by the Crown. In O'Cahan's case the Ó Catháin clan had traditionally inaugurated the O'Neill kings in the past. With this overwhelming alliance, in 1592 Turlough was forced to name Hugh as his Tánaiste. However, by the 20th century, many of the Irish branches were returning to the Gaelic name. After their realm was merged with the Kingdom of Ireland and the land was caught up in the Plantation of Ulster, they were involved in a number of significant events, such as Tyrone's Rebellion, the Flight of the Earls, the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Irish Confederate Wars. 11 (1997), pp 34–55. In Ireland this rhetoric was directed at the English-speaking descendants of the Norman conquerors whose support was crucial to the success of O'Neill's cause. HENRY 1 O'NEALL was born in 1742 in Christiana, Delaware. [citation needed] At Bandon they joined together, and then blockaded the English army that was laying siege to the Spanish. After the fall of the O'Neill kingship, many MacShanes followed their cousins into military service in Spain and France and even served in the Irish regiments with their family and former enemies, the descendants of Hugh Rua O'Neill, the 2nd Earl. Their close connection to the Spanish government after the final fall of the O'Neills in 1690 provided the opportunity for new territory. Many other O'Neill families that moved from Barbados settled on the Island of Vieques. Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters, O'Clery, Dublin 1846. (, Hiram Morgan, Tyrone's Rebellion (Dublin, 1993), pp 92–3. He sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Antrim. [citation needed]. They were given an army of more than 2000 Scots to return to Ulster to attempt to retake their father's estate and title. He had a large number both of legitimate and illegitimate children: four legitimate daughters, including Sarah; two illegitimate sons, Turlogh and Conn; four legitimate sons, Hugh, Henry, Bryan, John. The lineage does not receive a mention in non-Irish recorded history sources[3] between the 1080s and 1160s, from which they emerge from a "very murky background". [11] Throughout his nine-year exile he was active in plotting a return to Ireland, toying variously both with schemes to oust English authority outright and with proposed offers of pardon from London. Turlough assumed the position of The O'Neill Mor and held it through a great deal of fighting until 1595 when he died. Descendants of this Hugh held tight to the false story that he was descended from Bryan mac Felim This branch of the family is often referred to as the O'Neills of the Fews of Seville and is currently headed by the Spanish nobleman Don Carlos O'Neill. [11]With a shattered force, O'Neill made his way once more to the north, where he renewed his policy of ostensibly seeking pardon while warily defending his territory. The last King of Tyrone and first original earldom was one such grant by Henry VIII in 1542 to Conn Bacach O'Neill, on the creation of the Kingdom of Ireland. Accompanying them were their wives, families and retainers, numbering ninety-nine persons. In the early 1590s, English government in Ulster took the form of a Provincial Presidency, to be headed by the colonist, Henry Bagenal who lived at Newry. Is this your ancestor? Eventually, he was generating £80,000 of revenue. Calendar of the State Papers of Ireland 1660–1662, pg. He was reportedly poisoned by Cromwell's supporters and died in 1649. Family documents[citation needed] that the O'Neill's had elements land on the Islands and were associated with the families of Rocco, Eammon, Constatino or Conn Eoghan, Edmundo, and Gill – all men who served in the Ultonia and Hibernia regiments for the Crown of Spain. O'Hanlon was pressed into Swedish military service and threatened with execution if he resisted. He claims direct descent from the last undisputed "Lord of the Fews" Henry O'Neill although contemporary evidence shows that Henry had no descendants. [35] The eventual heir, Owen McHugh O'Neill, completely dropped any association with the O'Neill name, and just took McShane as a surname due to the Irish Penal Laws, in an attempt to hold his father's small estate. [9], The pair of fugitives fled the city to the Wicklow Mountains, a stronghold of the O'Byrnes, who were led by Fiach McHugh O'Byrne, one of O'Neill's allies. Hugh O'Neill was portrayed by Tom Adams in the Disney film: The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966) with a character name change to Henry O'Neill. Constantine Ó Néill 14. Clan organizations and meetings are held regularly, and the family organization is recognized by every possible Irish historical governing body. Sidney, H., Sir Henry Sidney's Memoir of his government of Ireland 1583, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, First series, Vol. O’Neills from Carlow to Ohio. James O'Neill, The Nine Years War, 1593–1603: O'Neill, Mountjoy and the Military Revolution (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2017). Count O'Nelley of the Austro-Hungarian Army (circa 1750) is of this line and from the MacShanes, as are the O'Neills of the Feeva. [9], Through his other contacts, Hugh had the support of lords and Earl's in Ormonde, Leicester and Argyll, and even had the support of Lord Deputy of Ireland Fitzwilliam, whom he bribed. Running Beast (2007), a musical theatre piece by playwright Donal O'Kelly with music by the composer Michael Holohan, commemorating The Flight of the Earls 1607–2007. The family fought on both sides of the wars that racked Ireland from the 1530s to 1690s, whose end result was a significant loss of territory and influence due to political alliances and an influx of new families flowing in from Scotland and England. [citation needed], O'Donnell went to Spain to seek further assistance, where he died soon afterwards (there was evidence to show poisoning by Anglo-Irish double-agent James 'Spanish' Blake was suspected, however he most likely died of a flu). . King Aedh “the Stout” O’Neill of Ulster first used the crest during his reign in the mid-1300s. Felix O'Neill was born in Creggan in County Armagh. He was killed at the Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745, aged 69. Another of the more famous O'Neills of Tyrone was Owen Roe O'Neill (c. 1590–1649), a brilliant 17th-century military commander and one of the most famous of the O'Neill family of Ulster. Having helped the Anglo-Normans barons in a rebellion against their fellow Norman lord, the Earl of Ulster, the family was granted land outside the North, in Ulster within what is now south County Antrim. The London Gazette. 14 April 1868. p. 2220. The O'Neills had strong family relationships with the FitzGerald dynasty, both the Earls of Kildare and Earls of Desmond; the Earl of Pembroke via de Clare's marriage to the Irish house of Diarmuid, King of Leinster; and the MacDonnells, Bissetts, MacLeans, and Campbells. [11], The hopes of the earls for military support foundered as Philip III of Spain wanted to maintain the recent 1604 peace treaty with James I of England, the Spanish economy had gone bankrupt in 1596 and its European fleet had been destroyed some months earlier by the Dutch Republic at the Battle of Gibraltar. [9], His constant disputes with Turlough were fomented by the English with a view to weakening the power of the O'Neills, but the two came to some agreement and Turlough abdicated in 1593. Group of families prominent in Ireland, elsewhere, O'Neill Descendants in France, Spain, and Portugal, Anradhán kindred of Scotland/Scottish and Irish Clans related to Uí Neill Dynasty. In 1896 Jorge O'Neill of Portugal submitted his genealogy to the Somerset Herald in London. 758. Art: his son; died 1514. 1470 Ulster Ireland died 1512 Ulster Ireland including ancestors + descendants + Y-chromosome DNA + more in the free family tree community. Tulio died in 1855 and the family line was continued through his son who inherited his mother's titles (the Marques de la Granja, the Marques de Caltojar, the Marques de Valdeosera and the Count of Benajiar). 121. [7], O'Neill became a ward of the state and was brought up in the Hovendan household, an Anglo-Irish family, at Balgriffin, outside Dublin, in the Pale. Genealogy profile for Sir William Hugh O'Neill. Henry (1676-1745) should subsequently have recovered the confiscated lands; his relatives on the continent feared to send him back to Ireland to stake his claim and the property went by default and was sold in 1702–3. He joined Hugh O’Donnell’s men as well as Spanish allies at the Battle of Kinsale in 1601. Genealogies list Hugh as either the youngest son of Con MacShane O'Neill, or 3rd son of Shane O'Neill himself. The Women of the Flight of the Earls”, Jerrold Casway in New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua, Vol. The majority of the descendants will be from Hugh O'Neill and Deborah Joyce, who left Ireland, ca 1805, and settled in what is now Noble County, Ohio. Shane O'Neill, known as Seán an Díomais or 'Shane the Proud' (1530–1567), the eldest surviving, legitimate son of Conn Bacach O'Neill, was styled Prince of Tyrone, Prince of Ulster, and Dux Hibernicorum (Prince of Ireland) by his European peers. [11] It was created in 1868 for the musical composer The Reverend William O'Neill. Carlos O'Neill 8. Vol. Shane's sons took the surname MacShane, or son of Shane. 22–51. pg.90–99, 457–459, 301–302. O'Neill is the central character in Brian Friel's play Making History (1989), which is concerned largely with his third marriage to Mabel Bagenal: Friel describes the marriage as a genuine if ill-fated love affair. He was the titular head of the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, whose family have been in Portugal ever since. Footnote no. [50] Anradhán, who does not appear in contemporary sources,[51] was apparently an 11th-century dynast, son of Aodh Athlamháin, King of Aileach (died 1033). Brian, son of Hugh, the Chief of the McShane O'Neills led the clan in the 1642 Rising, the Irish Confederate Wars, and fought against Oliver Cromwell's Army through the death of his 2nd cousin Owen Roe O'Neill in 1649 and the victory of Cromwell in 1653. ANNE COX witnessed the inventories and estate bonds of Hugh O'Neall between 1746 and 1751 in Frederick County, Virginia. His son Conn (Constantine) O'Neill was an officer who spent his life in exile in France and married to Cecilia O'Hanlon. [21] Indeed, Felix was considered to have a valid claim to be the Chief of the entire O'Neill clan. Written and performed by Owen O'Neill, writer comedian and poet. [43], Geneticists at Trinity College, Dublin suggested in 2006 that Niall of the Nine Hostages may have been the most fecund male in Irish history.
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