to ask how would you pronounce these names?

[BumWiper]

Caoimhe and Naoise

I'm Cathleen too, CRS.

Ha! I should get my mother on here. She's a Kathleen and 'Kaff' drives her crazy. My dad's been calling her it for 40 years. :o

when I worked at a school there was a child their called Caoimhe and they pronounced it Key vee, Dad was Irish i think.

I love Irish names. I wanted Declan or Deaglan for DS so much but DH vetoed it. If I've known how close DS's birthday was to St. Declan's feast day I might have gotten it by him. Hmmph. It's shooting up the charts here, though, so maybe it's a good thing I didn't go with it.

I'm not Irish (well, no more than a smidge) but I am American and we're not bothered about about things like that. :o

I have a irish relation who is married to a very very proper very English solicitor in a very English market twon. They have a very English last name... and three boys with extremely Irish first names. You can see him thinking in mild bemusement "How on earth did that happen?"!

Ok thats my 7 year old daughters name! if you are from the North of Ireland its Keeva. From the south and its generally Kweeva
im a belfast girl so Keeva! good choice
As you were!

so key vee is completely wrong then?! Wondered why they pronounced it like that?

you can't make the sounds kay-vee out of caoimhe, to be honest. It'd be like like saying: my names Jane, pronounced Jenny. Its closeish, but its not right.

Unless you're in Dublin where its pronounced 'Neeve'

I always though Naoise was pronounced Naas as in the town but thinking on it there is a Aoise in DS1 class and her name is pronounced 'Ee shu'

it was kee vee they pronounced it. I had never come across it before so had no idea - they def pronounced it like that! They were ever so slightly er "different" though

Ok I probably have zero secrecy left but the Toddler is Laoise (Lee-sha) which everyone comments on.

*Here's one for you non-irish and non-irish knowledgers...

Cionnaith Ó Maoldomhnaigh.*

is it Kenneth Moloney ??

I am very glad that you did as I would have tried by saying
KAY O ME and NA O SEE (BIG FAIL!!!!) and then asked if i was correct.

You learn something new every day :)

I'm enjoying the idea of a child being called Naas far too much

We called our first son Conor-did we spell it wrong?

Nope Conor is correct pink, if you were going for the Irish spelling. So sorry to hear that he died :(

After seeing all the lovely names on here I am a bitthat we didnt give our dd an irish name. We couldnt agree on one though-I loved Aoife but always thought it was pronouce ee-fa but inlaws insisted that it was said A-fa and were such twats about it that it put me off!. I also loved Clodagh but dh vetoed.He wanted Siobhan but is the name of a close relative or Orla which I like but already knew two little girls called that.
We chose a greek name in the end!.

I have a Maeve and a Seamus too! Do I win the golden shamrock??
How did I miss Laoise?? I looooove it

I have a Maeve and a Seamus too! Do I win the golden shamrock??
How did I miss Laoise?? I looooove it

Mayorquimby, there's a town in Co Kildare called Cutbush. I laughed for 24 hours after my friend moved there. I'm over it now. It no longer seems so funny. But I did wonder if the Queen saw any signs to Cutbush when she was in Kildare on her way to the curragh. If so I bet she smiled slightly.

Keeva and Neesha

No golden shamrock, queenie, you didn't spell it Maebh!

bandwitch- there is a place in Donegal called Muff, cracks me up every time I see a sign for it :o
as for you irishqueen, I won the "úll dearg" and was nominated for presidency last night, the golden shamrock comes no where near my far superior Oirishness!