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Help[Opinions] Re: Fake Irish?
in reply to a message by ADT
Naming your kid Aiden,Kennedy,Rory doesn't make them Irish. Most of them are surnames turned fn or they are pulled from literature. I would say not fake but assumed to be Irish. Dylan,and Rhiannon are Welsh but many asuume they are Irish.A lot of Irish kids are named Thomas,Mary,Michael,Anne,ect.
I don't think I will use them b/c everywhere you turn there's a child named an Irish name.It annoys the hell out of me to continously see cutesy spellings of these names.How many ways can you spell Reily,Caitlin,and Ryan?
I can't find any of theses trendy and popular names in my in my family tree throughout the generationseven w/ a maternal grandmother who was 100% Irish.
Brigid
Padrig
Deirdre
Helen
Mary
Kathleen not Katherine
George
Eileen
Seamus
these were in my tree.
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Fields are spoiled by weeds;
people, by delusion.
My &'s are
Chiara,Griffin,Melor,Zara,Iris,Dane
My #'s are Alastar,Lachlan,Carys,Finola,Gareth,Deidre
My !'s are
Grigore,Faina,Oleg,Kyril,Raisa
I don't think I will use them b/c everywhere you turn there's a child named an Irish name.It annoys the hell out of me to continously see cutesy spellings of these names.How many ways can you spell Reily,Caitlin,and Ryan?
I can't find any of theses trendy and popular names in my in my family tree throughout the generationseven w/ a maternal grandmother who was 100% Irish.
Brigid
Padrig
Deirdre
Helen
Mary
Kathleen not Katherine
George
Eileen
Seamus
these were in my tree.
*************************************************
Fields are spoiled by weeds;
people, by delusion.
My &'s are
Chiara,Griffin,Melor,Zara,Iris,Dane
My #'s are Alastar,Lachlan,Carys,Finola,Gareth,Deidre
My !'s are
Grigore,Faina,Oleg,Kyril,Raisa
This message was edited 11/5/2005, 4:23 PM
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I'm Irish on my father's side (although branches of this tree go back as far as 1826 in the US). The names of my various great, great great grandmothers etc are Catherine, Ann, Mary, Jane, Sarah. My grandmother was Hazel Bridget. The great and great-greats grandfathers etc. are Francis, Stephen, Matthew, George, Henry, Dominick. I have tons of genealogy from my father's side.
However, I assume that the culture was significantly anglicized by the 17/1800s and I even read that at one point it was against the law to name your child a gaelic name. I enjoy the resurgence of the "truly Irish" names but often find them hard to pronounce and spell. I do not, however, like the practice of naming girls with Irish surnames (Riley, Kennedy, et al). I don't even like it for boys unless it is a family name.
However, I assume that the culture was significantly anglicized by the 17/1800s and I even read that at one point it was against the law to name your child a gaelic name. I enjoy the resurgence of the "truly Irish" names but often find them hard to pronounce and spell. I do not, however, like the practice of naming girls with Irish surnames (Riley, Kennedy, et al). I don't even like it for boys unless it is a family name.
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