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irishqueen · 24/01/2011 13:42

Clodagh, Maeve (Maebh) or Enya (Enya) for a girl
Dermot or Cormac for a boy

DP likes Dermot and Enya ( he is not irish)
Im keener on the others
grrrr

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TangerineQueen · 26/06/2011 23:57

Colm is easy to spell! Also Declan, Daire and Niall are manageable! Kerry for a boy?

Love Clodagh! Think it's not tooo difficult to pronounce. Also love Saoirse and Aisling which are more challenging...

sorchatallulah · 26/06/2011 21:00

Go for Sorcha :D It's probably my favourite female name which is weird because it's -my- name and nobody seems to like their own name as much! I like having to tell people how to pronounce/spell it for some reason - I suppose it isn't intuitive at all :/ When I lived in England I got "Sirka" or "Sorka" (and actually still do, as nicknames!)

bagelmonkey · 26/06/2011 02:22

For a girl I love Laoise, Orla, Niamh and Aoife.
For a boy I love Oisin.

muminthecity · 26/06/2011 01:57

I love your choice of names, Seamus is my all time favourite boys name, closely followed by Ruairidh. I love Clodagh for a girl.

outnumbered2to1 · 26/06/2011 01:30

i have a Killian (irish name - austrian spelling) and a Ronan (he was born the year Ireland won the 6 nations and Ronan O'Gara was kicking everything off the park). A girl would have been Niamh or Saiorse or Mairead

mopsytop · 19/04/2011 14:41

I use French a lot, so I know all the shortcuts for various accents on an English keyboard. You don't need to use the number shortcuts, there are also shortcuts on the actual letter keyboard, but I am used to the numbers so use them a lot.

chipmonkey · 19/04/2011 14:38

á
é
ó
mopsy, how do you know this stuff?Grin

mopsytop · 19/04/2011 10:15

Yeah there is a different code for different letters.
á = Alt and 0225
é = Alt and 0233
ó = Alt and 0243
ú = Alt and 0250
í = Alt and 0237

lettinggo · 18/04/2011 20:09

haha, that's good Mr Chipmonkey!

chipmonkey · 18/04/2011 19:47

é
Ok, that was pressing Alt Gr and 0233.
Is there a different code for all the other letters?

chipmonkey · 18/04/2011 19:45

Right, now when I did THAT I ended up on Facebook.

To which dh said

"Our fada
Who art on Facebook"
Grin

mopsytop · 18/04/2011 18:34

otherwise do Alt and 0233 on the number keypad (on the right of your keyboard) and that will make an é fada. But if you want general fadas you need to press é Alt Gr and e but you need to keep both pressed down together or it won't work!

lettinggo · 18/04/2011 18:15

Is mór an náire é sin! (Just showing off my fadas - or should it be fadaí??))
That's a bummer. It was one of the kids I teach who showed me how to do that and I think I'm a great girl altogether:)

chipmonkey · 18/04/2011 16:34

I have the key, I am using it like the shift key but nada. Or faic!

lettinggo · 18/04/2011 12:15

It's beside the spacebar on the right? Press it like you're pressing the shift key?

chipmonkey · 18/04/2011 11:56

Doesn't work on my keyboard.Sad

lettinggo · 18/04/2011 00:18

You press the alt gr button at the same time as pressing the letter.

chipmonkey · 17/04/2011 23:57

By the way, those of you who can do fadas on your posts, how do you do it?

chipmonkey · 17/04/2011 16:29

My friend has a Sibeal and I always wonder whether she got it from the waiting area in Holles St hospital where there is a memorial to the founder who was called Sibeal.

mopsytop · 17/04/2011 16:11

p.s. anything with a 'bh' in the middle is pronounced 'v', as in Siobhán is shovawn

mopsytop · 17/04/2011 16:10

What about Diarmuid instead of Dermot if you want it to be really Irish?

chipmonkey · 07/03/2011 20:21

I love Etain with a fada on the e and the a, so Ay-tawn.

kirstie140913 · 07/03/2011 19:10

mine are shannon (normal, but not even really used as a name in Ireland!!)
Aoife (getting quite common now)
so this time we went for a something as unusual as we could find and actually liked - Tailte prononced talt-cha (female)not met another yet.

pmouse · 04/03/2011 18:38

Having had a hard-to-prounounce Irish name for 35 years I recommend you go for one that's easy. I don't know how many times - yawn - I've had to spell it out over the phone and that's not to mention the attempts people have had at prounouncing it outside the UK when I've travelled. grr...

paulbrom · 27/02/2011 09:54

LOVE Clodagh! I wanted it for DD but DP refused :(

Cormac is lovely too.