Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill

Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (also known as '''Eileen O'Connell''', ) was a member of the Irish gentry and a poet. She was the main composer of ''Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire'', a traditional lament in Irish described (in its written form) as the greatest poem composed in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century.

Ní Chonaill was a member of Muintir '''Chonaill of Derrynane''', County Kerry, being one of ten surviving children of Dómhnaill Mór Ó Conaill and Máire Ní Dhonnchadha Dhuibh, and an aunt of Daniel O'Connell.

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