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Ó Siadhail / uaSiadhail / uaSiadgail is a
Gaelic Gaelic (pronounced for Irish Gaelic and for Scots Gaelic) is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". It may refer to: Languages * Gaelic languages or Goidelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insul ...
- Irish
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Overview

There were at least three families of this name in
Gaelic Ireland Gaelic Ireland () was the Gaelic political and social order, and associated culture, that existed in Ireland from the late Prehistory of Ireland, prehistoric era until the 17th century. It comprised the whole island before Anglo-Norman invasi ...
. * Ó Siadhail of Ui Maine, now east
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. * Ó Siadhail of Uí Failghe, now
County Offaly County Offaly (; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster. It is named after the Ancient Ireland, ancient Kingdom of Uí ...
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. * Ó Siadhail of
Tír Chonaill Tyrconnell (), also spelled Tirconnell and Tirconaill, was a kingdom of Gaelic Ireland. It is associated geographically with present-day County Donegal, which was officially named ''County Tirconaill'' between 1922 and 1927. At times it also i ...
, now
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. Little is recorded of the Ui Maine family. Those of Uí Failghe and Tír Chonaill were
ollamh An or ollamh (; anglicised as ollave or ollav), plural ollomain, in early Irish literature, was a master in a particular trade or skill. Bard Generally, ''ollam'' referred to a professional poet or bard of literature and history, and a membe ...
s of
medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...
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s to the ruling families in the respectives kingdoms and environs. It is not clear if the two were branches of the one family, or unrelated families who happened to bear the same surname. One of the Ó Siadhail branches were physicians in service to the McMahons of Oriel, and later to the O'Neills. In the 1580s, this branch relocated from Brosna,
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Moycashel Moycashel (), previously the barony of Rossaughe, and before that, Delamares country, is a barony in south County Westmeath, in Ireland. It was formed by 1542.
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Current forms

The surname is now generally
anglicised Anglicisation or anglicization is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into or influenced by the culture of England. It can be sociocultural, in which a non-English place adopts the English language ...
as O'Shiel, Shiel, Sheil, Sheils, Sheals, Sheal, and Sheilds (or Shiels, Shields as well as O’Shields), but the original form, Ó Siadhail, is used by persons who are Gaelic and conscious of their genealogy.


Notable bearers

Notable people named Ó Siadhail or one of its variants include: * Eoghan Carrach Ó Siadhail, poet, fl. c. 1500–1550 * Owen O'Shiel, Irish physician, 1584–1650 * Séamus Ó Siaghail, Irish scribe, c. 1600–1655 * Michael Shiell, Irish clergyman, c. 1663–1700 * James Shields, American politician, 1806–1879 *
Micheal O'Siadhail Micheal O'Siadhail ( ; born 12 January 1947) is an Irish poet. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) and the University of Oslo. He has been a lecturer at TCD, a professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and has been a fu ...
, Irish poet, born 1947 *
Kevin Shields Kevin Patrick Shields (born 21 May 1963) is an Irish musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, who achieved international fame as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine (band), My Bloody Valenti ...
, Irish musician, born 1963 *
Brooke Shields Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, Shields gained widespread notoriety at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film ''Pretty Baby (1978 film), Pretty Baby ...
, American actress, born 1965 * Jimi Shields, Irish musician, born 1967 * , 1950–2006


See also

* Shiel


References

* ''Medicine and Medical Doctors'', Chapter XIV, ''A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland'',
Patrick Weston Joyce Patrick Weston "P. W." Joyce (1827 – 7 January 1914) was an Irish historian, writer and music collector, known particularly for his research in Irish etymology and local place names of Ireland. Biography He was born in Ballyorgan in the B ...
, 1906.


External links

* http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID= * http://www.libraryireland.com/SocialHistoryAncientIreland/II-XIV-1.php * http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~grannyapple/SHIELDS%20DNA/DNA%20Test%20Results.html {{DEFAULTSORT:O Siadhail Surnames Irish families Irish Brehon families Surnames of Irish origin Irish-language surnames Families of Irish ancestry Irish medical families