irish baby names

[irishqueen]

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

Doesn't work on my keyboard.

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

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

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:)

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!

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

To which dh said

"Our fada
Who art on Facebook"

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

haha, that's good Mr Chipmonkey!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!)

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...