Ó hAnluain, Eoghan

Merriman, Brian (c.1749–1805), poet, was born in Ennistymon, Co. Clare. Very little is known with certainty about him. His name is more than likely a variant of the west Clare surname Marrinan. His father was a stonemason, who worked on the building of the Deer Park walls…

Ó hUaithnín, Seon (b. c.1688), poet, was born in Kilshanny, north of Ennistymon, Co. Clare, eldest son of Walter Huonyn (the name took many anglicised forms) of Tullamore in the parish of Killaspuglonane; nothing is known of his mother. Little is known of him, apart from…