Ó hEódhasa (or Ó hEóghusa) , Eochaidh (c. 1570-1617)

Irish writer, a major bardic poet in traditional Gaelic society, and head of the learned and poetic Ó hEódhasa family of Ballyhose on Castlehume Lough, Lower Lough Erne, County Fermanagh. He was ollamh (highest ranking poet under the áes dána, a Gaelic guild system) to three Maguire (Mág Uidhir) chieftains of Fermanagh. His poetry of praise, loyalty, and adoration of Hugh Maguire (died 1600) most typifies the often complex relationship between high-born patron and poet, and indicates the privileged position of the bard in Gaelic society.