O’Neill Irish Family Heritage Gifts
O’Neill gifts carry the name of the Tír Eoghain kings and the Red Hand of Ulster, with a tartan woven blanket, black mug, garden flag, ornaments, wall pennant and an Irish harp T-shirt.
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O'Neill Irish Harp T-Shirt -
O'Neill Irish Family Crest Wall Pennant -
O'Neill Irish National Tartan Family Crest Mug – Black 11 oz -
O'Neill Irish Woven Blanket | Family Crest Tartan Throw -
O'Neill Irish Tartan Ceramic Ornament – House of O'Neill Design -
O'Neill Irish Family Crest Garden Flag – House of O'Neill Design -
O'Neill Irish Family Crest Tartan Christmas Ornament
About O’Neill Irish Family Heritage Gifts
O’Neill is the English form of Ó Néill, “descendant of Niall,” a personal name Patrick Woulfe glosses as “champion.” The surname honors Niall Glúndub, king of Ireland, who fell fighting the Norse near Dublin in 919, and his grandson Domhnall was the first to carry it.
For six centuries the O’Neills led the Cenél nEógain of Tír Eoghain, the territory that gave County Tyrone its name, inaugurating their chiefs at Tullyhogue and ruling from Dungannon. A strong branch, the Clandeboye O’Neills, settled Antrim and Down in the fourteenth century. Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, won the battle of the Yellow Ford in 1598 during the Nine Years’ War and sailed from Rathmullan in the Flight of the Earls in 1607. A generation later his nephew Owen Roe O’Neill led the Confederate army of Ulster to victory at Benburb in 1646. The Red Hand of the O’Neills still stands as the emblem of Ulster.
Bring that Ulster story home with an O’Neill woven blanket, a garden flag, a black accent mug and two Christmas ornament styles, each carrying the Irish National Tartan. A wall pennant suits a study or den, and an Irish harp T-shirt carries the name into everyday wear. Follow the full story in our O’Neill surname history.