Ó Siadhail

Overview

• Ó Siadhail of Ui Maine, now east County Galway.
• Ó Siadhail of Uí Failghe, now County Offaly and County Laois.
• Ó Siadhail of Tír Chonaill, now County Donegal.

Current forms

Famous bearers

• Eoghan Carrach Ó Siadhail, poet, fl. c. 1500-1550.
• Séamus Ó Siaghail, c. 1600 - 1655.
• Michael Shiell, c. 1663 - 1700.
• James Shields, 1806-1879.
• Micheal O'Siadhail, poet, born 1947.
• Kevin Shields, 1963 -
• Brooke Shields, 1965 -
• Jimi Shields, 1967 -
• , 1950-2006.
• Damien Shiels, author of The Irish in the American Civil War
• Professor Paul Shiels, Scientist, alumnus Trinity College Dublin, University of Glasgow, Professor of Geroscience, University of Glasgow,
• Ricardo Shiel and his brother Edward Shiel, merchant shipping, Rafael de la Viesca 10, Cadiz, Spain. Sons of Risteard Shiel, an exile from Omagh in Tyrone, Ireland. Their cousin James Shiel, RIAI, Irish architect, late Georgian and Edwardian styles. Their descendants: Richard Lalor Shiel, M.P., Catholic Emancipation, Ireland, 1829. His brother Major General Sir Justin Shiel, Ireland, British Army and Persian Army. Justin Shiel's descendants: Edward Shiel, Ireland, M.P., Irish national Party. Democratic Senator Colonel George Knox Shiel, Oregon U.S.A.,. Thomas Martin Shiel, philologist, alumnus University College Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Mark Shiel, author in filmic studies and critical theory, alumnus Trinity College Dublin, Birbeck College London and fellow/reader Kings College London. Sonia Shiel, artist, alumnus National College of Art Dublin, Ireland. Family name: variously Shiel, O'Shiel, uaSiadgail, uaSiadhail and mistakely Sheil. Further confusion arises when Matthew Phipps Shiell, a British West Indian author, uses the pen-name M. P. Shiel. His legal surname is "Shiell".