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lakehouse · 17/08/2018 13:55

I love Celtic names, particularly Irish names, but they're so hard to spell. Living in England I don't want to give her a lifetime of people not being able to pronounce/spell her name. Any ideas for beautiful Celtic names which are simple?! Thanks!

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AtticaRose · 20/08/2018 11:17

@lakehouse

Yes, you did say that. I'm not criticising. I think some posters just think that "Celtic, especially Irish" is not the phrasing they would use, that's all.

mathanxiety · 20/08/2018 20:09

Superstar, it's because history is actually one of my strong points that I question the term Celtic.

Apart from the difficulty pinning down 'the Celts' archaelogically and anthropologically, references to 'Celtic' nowadays seem to have resurrected the imaginary 'Celtic' world of Standish O'Grady. Check out Pinterest for examples.

WaxOnFeckOff · 20/08/2018 20:44

I don’t know why you’d take an extremely well known Irish name like Ciara (I know three and have never been anywhere even remotely near Ireland) and spell it Keira,

Because Keira isn't the anglicised form of Ciara? Keira is the feminine form of the name Keir which is Scottish. Kiera is the anglicised version of Ciara, just as Kieran is the anglicised version of Ciaran.

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