In Irish author Maeve Binchy's novel Firefly Summer, the female protagonist is an adolescent girl named Dara, and she specifically talks about how her name means oak tree and it comes from the same root as Kildare, which means church of the oak tree.
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Dara Torres is an American swimmer who is a 12 time Olympic medalist. She competed in the 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008 Olympics. In 2008, at 41, she was the oldest swimmer to qualify for the US Olympic swim team.