FAUX Irish names are trendy - ala
Aiden (spelt like this) and
Aidan (anglicised),
Ryan,
Carson etc. And by the way, I can find 4 Irish names in the top 100. FOUR. I would say Hebrew names are far more overly trendy than Irish names thank you very much.
And why the hell are they pretentious? I am Irish, and I would bet a lot of money that most people who name their child
Lorccan or
Aodh are Irish or have some Irish heritage they would like to honour. Why is a sibset of
Lorccan,
Niamh and
Siobhan any more pretentious than a sibset of
Asher,
Job and
Ezekiel? Or
Amir,
Safiya and
Zahid? Or
Pierre,
Marcelline and
Blaise? Or
Alena,
Felicie and
Hartmut.
Give me a break. There is NO difference.
A name not making phonetic sense to you being a reason to hate them is narrow minded and ridiculous IMO.
Finally there is something particularly special about them. That is obvious by the fact that people use them. They are special to millions of Americans and Australians who have Irish heritage. They are special to the millions of Irish people, those that live in
Ireland and expats around the world. They represent our history, they represent the triumph of maintaining our culture despite 800 years of English invasion and occupation where they tried to make our language, stories and culture extinct. They represent our Freedom in 1922, they represent the myths and the Celtic religion of the past, our folklore, the Irish saints.
The names represent
so much
So don't make such sweeping generalisations about a culture you obviously don't understand.