Strong Irish boy names?

[Ginganinja123]

Love Tadhg and Ciarán but feel like it’s just not clicking the way my first baby’s name did. Any suggestions for really strong Irish boy names?

The OP specified Dáire with a fada did she not?

I never know what to do with a fada in Daire tbh.
I think it might be an older spelling, as in Old Irish? People seem to use both spellings, with and without the fada, these days and I’m not sure what’s right. I pronounce it as if there were no fada for what it’s worth.

Fergus
Cahal
Brendan
Sean
Patrick
Ryan

Cén fáth a chuir tú an cheist?

I think OP asked the question because mostly Irish people know how to pronounce Éabha, and Clodagh wouldn’t remind them of clods of earth and they wouldn’t be worried they’d say Dairy for Dáire/Daire 😅
And this is a UK based website so English is a fair guess…

Also Lonnóg or Lallóg aren’t commonly used names and I wouldn’t consider them easy to read either.
Guessing Lonnóg as Lown-ogue or Lun-ogue, and Lallóg as Loul-ogue? How would you say them @ThunderFog?

My guess is you’ve studied Gaelic but don’t live in Ireland?🤔

Odhrán has always been one of my favourites

@ThunderFog she asked because you have difficulty pronouncing Eabha- which is a bit strange if you're Irish. Or being tired would call Dáire Dairy and suggested Jonathon as an alternative, you think Clodagh sounds like clods. All of which wouldn't be typical of an Irish person. However you've then suggested 3 really out there Irish names so it's all a bit unusual.

Oh, no, just tired.
Clodagh has no fada so my eyes see short o.

The OP also says Éabha confuses her, and has suggested two (archaic?) Irish names I’ve never come across being used, so I don’t think I’m being unreasonable in assuming she misspelled Daire.

I think the river was An Chlóideach in Irish. Clodagh is an anglicised version of the name, that’s why there’s no fada.

Daire is often spelt with a fada recently, although it usually isn’t pronounced as such as far as I know.

If you look at older bearers of the name (centuries old) the fada is often included. Language changes though and just because a fada was correct fadó, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s used in modern Irish.

I don’t know what’s correct for Daire tbh.

Also I think you might be mixing up @ThunderFog with the OP, @IntheVicinity. The OP wasn’t confused by Éabha.

Sorry, I got three hours’ sleep.

I’ve honestly never seen Dáire, but then a significant minority of people think Aoibheann is pronounced Ayveen, so who knows?

I have an Oisín and Fionn . Love both names !
I don't like Tiarná at all . Weird positioning of the fada ??

That reminded me of a former colleague Mossy who I've just looked up and found he has returned to Ireland.

If I've a girl this time round I'll be calling her saor(fh)laith . I just can't decide between the two spellings

Tiarná does seem odd. Just googled it, seems to be used a little in NI at least (for girls). Also a couple of Tiarnas in Ireland.

It seems strange to call a girl ‘lord’ and I don’t know where the fada has come from?
Maybe they just took the ‘n’ off Tiarnán, but that doesn’t really make sense…