Saoirse?

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Follow on from my Isla thread, another name I have in mind is Saoirse.

Sister would still be Hazel, and there’s very little chance of the name being mispronounced

Inspections would absolutely have shown up if the curriculum wasn't followed.
I went to a very rural primary school in the 70's and there are absolutely ways to get around this but if I wrote about the school I went to nobody would believe it except for the other people who went there! The cigire was clueless or simply couldn't care less.

Sounds like a whole other thread ;)

Of course Irish should be a mandatory subject, and i hope it remains so, its our language for Gods sake 🙄

As Maura said:

Maura finished up by saying she could write a book on everything that went on in her primary school and that there were many more stories.
I doubt if it would be a bestseller though

Why does MN keep messing up my formatting

Is it our language? It is an old language. No one I know in Ireland ever uses Irish at all in their day to day lives.

If we don't use it, how is it our langauge.

I bet you're an Áine.

And in the words of Marilla Cuthbert (kind of) 'Áine is a real good plain sensible name. You've no need to be ashamed of it'

Maura Higgins is very funny. The video she did about her primary school was very funny, because I could relate to a lot of what she said! She said there were two rooms in her primary school, with three classes in each room.

We had four rooms in my primary with two classes in each room. So fifth and sixth class were in one room. The teacher spent the day going between the classes in the same room

Maura Higgins is the most un-Maura looking Maura I've ever seen.

Mauras usually wear support stockings and a tweed skirt that's straining across an ample backside.

@Mooshamoo if you're living in Ireland you use it every day whether you are aware of it or not

No i dont. I only ever see irish when it is flashed up on the front of buses and trains. And i don't use it then. I wait for the English word to be flashed.

I never speak it. No one I know speaks it.

Ceart go leor

That's the midlands for you...

Áine is a sexy, sassy badass name compared to mine!😀

Síle
Mór
Mairéad
Plainest names I can come up with.

Mór
?

Of course it is, every language is an old language, fair enough it's not used day to day by a lot of people but it would be a shame to see it fade out, it's part of our identity and hopefully will remain so, in Northern Ireland it is growing in popularity which is great to see, its a lovely language and I love to hear people speak it fluently

The most popular female name in use in later mediaeval Ireland. Invariably anglicised Mary.

I'm no linguist and my Irish is crap but that reads like the precursor to "saor" to me, presumably Saoirse is a particular usage of that (sorry, crap on grammatical terms). Laethanta saoire and all that.

The most popular female name in use in later mediaeval Ireland
Jaysus that's before my time

You're a fine big girl

I assumed PP's name is Orla - not many Irish names that are widely used and also phonetically spelled in English and Irish at the same time.

Well they're hardly going to say yes that's my real name

Yeah exactly.

Especially if it's Mór.

Still funkier than mine, though I have a (cool) sister called Mairéad. Mine is like the definition of Beige As Gaeilge. Which I believe is ‘béas’.

(I kind of like Mór.)