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I wonder if the intention was that cousins Erin and Orla were both named after their Grandpa Joe.

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It's a fantastic show and the names fit the time period and location perfectly.

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I really like the actress who plays Erin full name: Saoirse-Monica.

I like Erin, Orla, and Michelle. Although Orla's name seems a bit out of place.

I was wondering if it was just a one of the Wikipedia editors mistakes of the Derry Girls page that Clare was twice listed, but apparently the character has two grandmothers named Clare and she was given one Clare for each of them, as per the writer Lisa McGee. Explains the other girls middle names too.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2020/04/29/derry-girls-series-three-writer-characters-middle-names-12626367/amp/

This message was edited 10/21/2024, 5:38 PM

I like Erin Josephine, Anna, Clare (crazy having it as a mn too), Michelle, James

I like Erin and Clare, but only once. I like Anne but not Anna, Michele but not Michelle, Louise but not Louisa, Niall and James.

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Clare Clare could well have been a mistake by whoever was christening her. I knew a woman named Clodagh, and she explained that her parents had chosen her names very carefully. Also very carefully, and on the other side of that piece of paper, they had written Clodagh because it was one of the places they planned to visit in their next holiday to Ireland. And the priest looked at the wrong side of the paper and named her Clodagh, and Clodagh she remained.