Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill (ca. 1590–1649), anglicised as Owen Roe O'Neill / Eoin Roe O'Neill ("Red Owen"), was a seventeenth century soldier and one of the most famous of the O'Neill dynasty of Ulster.
Read more about Owen Roe O'Neill: Birth, In Spanish Service, Return To Ireland, Factionalism and Disillusionment, Death and Legacy
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“Was it for this the clay grew tall?
MO what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth’s sleep at all?”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
“All day long in unrest,
To and fro do I move,
The very soul within my breast
Is wasted for you, love!”
—Owen Roe MacWard (d. 1849)