Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa [SEP] date of death
Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa
Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa (1567–1617) was a well-known Irish poet.
Native of Ulster, mainly employed by the Maguire chiefs of Fermanagh. Among his other works are several poems included in the Leabhar Branach, a compendium of poems mostly by Gaelic poets of Leinster, dedicated to the O'Byrne chiefs of Wicklow who "by their success in maintaining the independence and integrity of their mountainous territory against great odds until the final collapse, they were in a position to attract poets of repute from distant parts of
the terms of the Treaty of Mellifont by the Crown, he departed Ireland for the continent with Tyrone during the Flight of the Earls in 1607, dying at Genoa in August 1608. Almost all of Fermanagh was confiscated by the crown after this and planted, largely by English settlers and lowland Scots, particularly border reivers (see Plantation of Ulster).
Maguire's bard, Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa (O'Hussey in English), composed a stark and chilling ode upon his patron's death—some lines, translated by James Clarence