Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin (1748 – 1784), anglicized as Owen Roe O'Sullivan ("Red Owen"). Irish poet. Ó Súilleabháin is known as one of the last great Gaelic poets. A recent anthology of Irish-language poetry speaks of his "extremely musical" poems full of "astonishing technical virtuosity" and also notes that "Eoghan Rua is still spoken of and quoted in Irish-speaking districts in Munster as one of the great wits and playboys of the past."
None of Ó Súilleabháin's poems were printed in his lifetime. He wrote his poems and they spread through song. He was most famous for his Aisling poems, set to popular music, about beautiful women, symbolizing Ireland in degradation at a time when the country's fortunes were at its nadir.
- "The Rua refers to his red hair." https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Eoghan_Rua_%C3%93_S%C3...
- "A footloose man with a distinctive mop of red hair and exuberant spirit..." https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/.../viewconten...
- "He was a brilliant, red-haired, hard-living brawler, called "Owen of the Sweet Mouth"..." https://sedulia.blogs.com/.../2006/04/even_the_sassen.html
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