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I read somewhere that this name meant "eagle"; wouldn't "raven" be a variant of the stem "bran"?
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No, the meaning is definitely "raven". "Fiach dubh" means "raven" in Irish. Eagle is "iolar", which bears no resemblance to Fiachra. I don't know where you got "bran" from. In Irish, bran means the same as it does in English - the kind of cereal.
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My name is Fiachra and I have never known my name to mean anything other than Hunter! I have spoken with many fluent Gaelic speakers and they have always referred to my name as meaning hunter.
Anyone with half a brain can see that fiach dubh and Fiachra are completely different words with completely different meanings. Fiach means to hunt or hunting, dubh means black i.e. black hunt which is referring to the fact that the raven is black and hunts for things
Fiachra is someone who hunts i.e. hunter!