Diarmuid Mac Muireadhaigh, sometimes known in English as Dermot McMurray, was an Irish poet, alive in the late 17th century.
Mac Muireadhaigh is believed to be the composer of a 23 verse poem in honour of Gordon O'Neill, an officer who fought for the army of King James II during the Jacobite War in Ireland.
The poem is described by Paul Walsh as being "addressed to him [O'Neill] before the stirring times of his last years in Ireland", suggesting that it was written sometime in the 1680s.
Gluaisigh ribh a ghlac rannsa (ná fuirghe a bfad agamsa) go hO Néill na ngruadh ngarrtha do féin sdual gach deaghtarrtha Abruidh uaim re a fholt tais gur end sibh don chrann iomhais do bhean me (sa taoibh re tuinn) don chraoibh go ngé ^ núir náluinn Innsigh dhósan do shúr suilt doighre Cuind et Cormuic go bfuil im sdórsa lámh libh lán cóffra dona cnóaibh Mac Sir Féidhlim flaith Eamhna gion go labhair Gaoidhealga X. do dhéin gáire gléghlan ruibh ní náire dhó féin bhar bféuchuin Go, ye handful of verses — stay not long with me — to Néill of the fine cheeks, to him everything good is due.
Say to his soft hair, from me, that ye are a nut from the tree which I plucked — its side was towards the ground — from the branch with fresh beautiful appearance.