Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin

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Irish poet

WritersLived 1748 to 1784 · aged 36

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Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin, anglicized as Owen Roe O'Sullivan, was an Irish poet. He is known as one of the last great Gaelic poets.

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Memorial to Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin at Knocknagree, County Cork, Ireland. The Irish words above the English are the last poem of Eoghan Rua on his deathbed: "Weak indeed is the poet when the pen falls out of his hand".

Writers born in the 1740s 6

Antonio Maria Capodistria39.1 Jens Christian Svabo39.0

Ireneo Affò39.3 Charlotte Brooke38.7

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Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin, anglicized as Owen Roe O'Sullivan, was an Irish poet. He is known as one of the last great Gaelic poets. A recent anthology of Irish-language poetry speaks of his "extremely musical" poems full of "astonishing technical virtuosity", and also notes that "Eoghan Rua is still spoken of and quoted in Irish-speaking districts in Munster as one of the great wits and playboys of the past."