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Some are nice, but I think as a category they're too much of a fad and feel overused.
As concerns the phonetics isssues, I don't want to cause further controversy, but as a non-native English speaker, I find that English-language pronounciation is sometimes hard to figure anyway so these Celtic names that sound in a completely different way that what you'd expect them to are a teeny bit annoying... However I'm not a fan of the Anglicized spellings either, often they sound too trendy or tacky. I once met an American girl named Shyvonne, which I assumed was a weird made-up elaboration of Yvonne (it looks like "shy Yvonne" anyway). Years later, I discovered that it was probably an anglicization of Siobhan.