Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/O'Daly, Aengus (d.1350)
O'DALY, AENGUS (d. 1350), Irish poet, called in Irish Aenghus Ruadh O'Dálaigh, belonged to the sept of O'Daly of Meath, and was related to Cuchonacht O'Daly, who died at Clonard in 1139, and was the first famous poet of the O'Daly family. Aengus was poet to Ruaidhri O'Maelmhuaidh, chief of Fearcall, King's County, and when drunk offended that chief. He wrote a poem of 192 verses to appease O'Maelmhuaidh's wrath, ‘Ceangal do shioth riom a Ruadhri’ (‘Confirm thy peace with me, O Ruaidhri!’), in which he urges him to attack the English and make friends with his own poet. He was already in practice as a poet in 1309, when he wrote a poem of 192 verses on the erection by Aedh O'Connor in that year of a castle on the hill of Carn Free, ‘An tu aris a raith Theamhrach’ (‘Dost thou appear again, oh earthwork of Tara’).
[Transactions of Iberno-Celtic Society, vol. i., Dublin, 1820; O'Daly's Tribes of Ireland, Dublin, 1852.]