Eoghan Carrach Ó Siadhail (fl. c. 1500–1550) was a poet from County Donegal who wrote in Irish.

Biography

Eoghan Carrach was a member of the Ó Siadhail family of Tír Chonaill (now County Donegal). Under the patronage of Niall Connallach (Niall Óg Ó Neill, died 1544), he made a copy of Beatha Cholm Cille. It now exists as University College Dublin, MS A. 8.

See also

• Ó Siadhail
• James Shields (Ohio politician)
• Frank Shields
• Micheal O'Siadhail, poet
• Seán Ó Siadhail

References

• Lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge: Treoirliosta, Padraig de Brún, Dublin, 1988.
• Tyrone's Gaelic Literary Legacy, by Diarmaid Ó Diobhlin, in Tyrone: History and Society, 403–432, ed. Charles Dillon and Henry A. Jefferies, Geography Publications, Dublin, 2000. ISBN 0-906602-71-8.

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