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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“Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
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