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Help[Opinions] Re: Irish Names
in reply to a message by Ana
Yeah, the pronunciation / spelling thing is a problem for many of them. It just draws too much attention to the name as a word, rather than as the name of a person.
Some Irish names have conventional Anglicizations if you just like the sound of them.. like Keeva for Caoimhe. Aoife is not that different sounding from Eva if you say it EEva. I don't think there is a common one for Saoirse, but you can make one up (although you'd have to be tough minded enough to use it even though people reacted negatively to it, which they always always will to anything they haven't seen before).
I think they'd make fine middle names even with the Irish spelling, especially if you have a lot of Irish blood.
- chazda
Some Irish names have conventional Anglicizations if you just like the sound of them.. like Keeva for Caoimhe. Aoife is not that different sounding from Eva if you say it EEva. I don't think there is a common one for Saoirse, but you can make one up (although you'd have to be tough minded enough to use it even though people reacted negatively to it, which they always always will to anything they haven't seen before).
I think they'd make fine middle names even with the Irish spelling, especially if you have a lot of Irish blood.
- chazda
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