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cant think of unique irish boys name. suggestions please.

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breaghsmum · 02/03/2009 22:06

ds1 is called Bréagh, (pronounced bray)
we have a girls name already but cant think of a boys name that will compliment our son's. we want an irish name as our son's is irish and we dont want a name that someone we know has. any suggestions would be lovely.

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PinkTulips · 06/03/2009 17:31

and i'm greek

sounds like a good book though

LiffeyAndFriends · 06/03/2009 15:59

hmmm, by that rationale, I am Welsh-Canadian

Nassau · 06/03/2009 14:11

How about Fachtna (think there's a fada over the first a but could be wrong).

stickylittlefingers · 06/03/2009 14:04

all about Nora according to Wikipedia:

Eleanor Marie Robertson was born on October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, the only daughter and the youngest of five children

She is of Irish descent as both of her parents have Irish ancestors, and has described herself as "an Irishwoman through and through".

Hmmmm, one of those!!

LiffeyBag · 05/03/2009 16:30

How can I put this...

Is that an American writer?

Americans have a McIrish version of 'Irish'. A version of Irish which sounds fashionable to them.

eg, Rory for a girl, Finn for a girl.

Keegan (a sur name) for a boy etc

Kennedy for a girl!?!

You could say what about Clodagh or Roisin or Diarmuid or Tadhg, and that would be 'too foreign' to their ears. Which is fair enough, but their perception of Irish is distorted. In my humble opinion!

stickylittlefingers · 05/03/2009 14:07

I just found this book advertised - don't know if Nora's been making up Irish names or whether it's trad or what - but Samsmama isn't being completely mad!

Book sounds dreadful tho!!

MORRIGAN?S CROSS ? NORA ROBERTS

Standing on the cliffs of 12th century Ireland following the disappearance of his twin, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith is visited by the goddess Morrigan and is charged with the ultimate of tasks: saving his and all future worlds. His enemy ? the beautiful but deadly vampire queen Lilith ? has had over two thousand years? experience in cruelly killing and changing humans into her own kind ? including Hoyt?s brother, Cian. Now, Hoyt, a sorcerer, must travel across the world and through time to find and train the five others Morrigan has foretold will join him as a circle and do battle against Lilith?s army of vampires.

GrapefruitMoon · 05/03/2009 11:48

Eh?

stleger · 05/03/2009 11:22

Aodh?

LiffeyBag · 04/03/2009 20:15

I don't think there is a Y in gaelic, so I'm guessing no. It sounds kind of Dutch to me!

SamsMama · 04/03/2009 17:37

Also quite like Hoyt...is Hoyt Irish?

SamsMama · 04/03/2009 16:56

Don't have time to read all the posts, so these might be repeats: Declan, Eamonn, Cian, Cullen, Padraic.

Buda · 04/03/2009 16:42

Thanks guys - can't actually remember the stories so must get DS's Irish Legends book out. I sort of thought Children of Lir might be a bit much. Cuchulainn would be good.

I could do the story of St Patrick I suppose but I think they had that in detail in Year 1 as their teacher was Irish.

stleger · 04/03/2009 15:38

Salmon of Knowledge? We have always had legends as a March Special in school...crossover history, literarure and a chunk of St Patrick.

PinkTulips · 04/03/2009 15:26

cuchulainn would be perfect for that age group... that's about the age we did it in school.

those of you with primary kids... do they still teach the irish legends as history? we learned about fionn mccool and cuchulainn from our primary history books, wasn't til years later they told us that it wasn't strictly history of the factual kind

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slug · 04/03/2009 14:43

One of my brothers is Nolan. It's easy to pronounce and spell, but definitly Irish.

HeyMa · 04/03/2009 14:35

Lir is a nice name too.....

GrapefruitMoon · 04/03/2009 14:31

Ok unless any have stepmothers! It's a bit sad too...

Oisin in Tir na nOg would be my favourite... or Cuchulainn?

Buda · 04/03/2009 14:19

A friend has just called her DS Odhran pronounced Oran.

Whilst I have all you Irish lot here - I need suggestions for a story to read to DS's class on St Patrick's Day. Have volunteered to be a 'mystery reader' as part of Book Week. They are 7/8 so want something that will interest them. I was thinking Children of Lir?

GrapefruitMoon · 04/03/2009 14:02

Err that's a surname and may have certain "connotations" in NI

BlueChampagne · 04/03/2009 13:03

Devlin

PinkTulips · 04/03/2009 11:20
Shock
stleger · 04/03/2009 11:06

(Someone has just told me a helicopter trip for 2 hours is 8000 euros!)

PinkTulips · 04/03/2009 09:48

my dad read that story in school in holland and decided he was going to marry an irish woman and have a daughter so he could call her deirdre.... and he did!

MrsMattie · 04/03/2009 08:21

Please don't call a girl Naoise! It would be like calling a girl Collin