Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (Eugene Rutherford Watters) (3 April 1919 – 24 August 1982) was an Irish poet and writer.
The following five years were an unsettled period of limited productivity, changing residence and jobs, and, ultimately, serious depression.
His first major publication was his controversial novel Murder in Three Moves, followed by the Irish-language prose epic L'Attaque, which won an Irish Book Club award.
His narrative poem Dermot and Grace, an Irish version of Venus and Adonis, is considered his finest work.
Also in 1981, he and Rita Kelly published a joint collection of their poems, Dialann sa Díseart.
[6] Like Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin, he "challenged the critical orthodoxy by openly proclaiming that their standards could not be those of the Gaeltacht and by demanding a creative freedom that would acknowledge hybridity and reject the strictures of the linguistic purists.