Birth
O'Neill was the illegitimate son of Art O'Neill, a younger brother of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone (the Great O'Neill), who held lands in County Armagh. Eoghan Ruadh's mother was the daughter of Aodh Conallach O’Raghallaigh, the chief of Breifne O'Reilly in County Cavan.
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“Sin their conception, their birth weeping,
Their life a general mist of error,
Their death a hideous storm of terror.”
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