Need some nice Irish names..

Yes, they are MORE different than American English and Dublin English. I would understand confusion there more readily!

Hello to fellow Keeva mums. As you can see we anglicized it so people knew how to pronounce it. Now regret it though.

I have an Orla, which I love

Any Saint really!

Yes wtf is it with that? To me a Northern Ireland accent is as different from a Dublin accent, for example, as an English accent is from a Scottish one. Another thing is that we say "haitch" instead of "aitch" ( The letter, not the Mumsnetter!)

Liffey - what really gets me is people who can't tell if I'm from Northern Ireland or not?!?! Hello, the accents couldn't be more different! I wouldn't be brilliant at every accent but would definitely know Liverpool v London for example.

VintageGardenia - LMAO at that one

My English grandmother spent her last years here in Ireland & used to get very when people asked her if she was "in good form". She thought it was something to do with horseracing and generally inappropriate .

I think Shakespeare said "amn't I?" but then some smartarse replied "he couldn't spell his own name"

Most British peops (sorry to generalise) can't tell bogger from 'dort'. I was slagged for my 'strong' Irish accent too! I get asked if I'm English here.

Graham Norton?, Shane Lynch? from Boyzone, ALL the same!!

Mind you in fairness (!) I couldn't tell derbyshire from lancashire or anything like that..

Aoife
Rafferty
Seamus

I refuse to believe 'amn't I' is incorrect?!?!

What I found hardest to understand when I moved here first was how people knew I was Irish just from my voice/accent

I'm such a bogger that I think they're too busy laughing at my accent most of the time to register the 'unusual' words and/or expressions I use (or at least I hope so)

I'm in Scotland so people are usually quite nice about any strange things I may say. A former senior manager here loved when I told him I was 'grand' if he asked me how I was

ps, I do that 'so' thing. And also 'now'. Just as I'm pottering about, everything I do is punctuated with 'now!'. My son only has ten words and he shuffles about saying 'now!' for no reason in particular.

Yes I did the same, when I arrived fresh off the boat (well fresh off FR1124) I used to say 'amn't I'. I was laughed at but if you break it down to 'am I not?' and say it really fast, I'm still confused as to why that would be wrong.

Although, after much assimilation, I now get funny looks for saying 'aren't i?' here in dubh linn.

That is roundly MOCKED for being idiotic and totally wrong here. "aren't i?" WHAT the heck did you just say you big eejit ha ha!

I am reassimilating back into Irish society now. I never said Drawring though. Honest gov.

Liffey - yes I do write 'ye' in emails and texts, but not in formal reports for work as I live in the UK and people don't say it here. I write it because I say it and it is correct English, just look up the dictionary This is what I always advise people in the UK to do when they slag me off and tell me it's not a word - usually shuts them up

And don't worry about the split infinitives, most people do that!

Something I also do, which I never noticed as everyone else at home does it too, is end questions/sentences with 'so'. For example, 'will we do that so?'/'I'll do that so'. Drives one of my friends nuts!

Irish names rock, don't they?

ha ha chipmuuuunkee! If I see a lady on the 'dort' with four boys heading in to 'tone' I'll be wondering if tis yourself.

I think Pól is just hilarious as a name. There's a journo who writes for various papers called Pól. It's like 'Rod'. Seems just a tiny bit rude!

Am glad I had the right translation of Pauline purpleduck, was beginning to think I was wrong!

weebump

Chipmonkey, yeah Pauline isn't Seanín. That's Joan, or Jane I suppose. I just got carried away, as I came across a Shauneen today.

Girls names: Muireann, Shona and Bronagh
Boys names: Daragh, Fionn and Oisin

Oh and Liffey, Mine's a Point of Hoineken please!

weebump, Pauline is Poilin, isn't it? With a fada over the a?

Maurice is Muiris in Irish. Pronounced Mwirish.

Luibhaoise. That's how you would spell Louise

I know a whole Irish-named family, they've all been mentioned. Would agree that a name pronounceable by outsiders would be kind if you're not actually living in Ireland.

Oh, Maurice (as in Twenty Years a-growing)

Bridget/Bride (not sure how you spell that)

Margaret?

Pauline would be Seanín/Shauneen. Other names are Emer (that's mine!), Maeve, Niamh, Orla, Róisín (Rowsheen), Grainne (Grawnya), Máiréad,

Boys names: Cillian, Padraig, Eoghan, Finian, Ciarán, Declan, Emmet, Brendan, Liam, Colm, Ruaraí, Fionn,

I just got these from my phone contacts