cant think of unique irish boys name. suggestions please.

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ds1 is called Bréagh, (pronounced bray)
we have a girls name already but cant think of a boys name that will compliment our son's. we want an irish name as our son's is irish and we dont want a name that someone we know has. any suggestions would be lovely.

lol at minister for fun! not much of that now!

I'm watching Ros na run now. I am trying to gen up. It's hard because I can't type and read subtitles. thank god mistresses is in english!

the word for cheeky is cheeky. a boy called evan is being cheeky.

I know a little Diarmuid hes gorgeous so love the name. Also he has a very cute baby brother called Fiontan. Good luck its very hard to be original.

Naoise definitely a boys name - pronounced Neesha. People have used it for girls cos it sounds pretty but wrong imo. There's an old story Deirdre agus Naoise.

Please don't call a girl Naoise! It would be like calling a girl Collin

my dad read that story in school in holland and decided he was going to marry an irish woman and have a daughter so he could call her deirdre.... and he did!

(Someone has just told me a helicopter trip for 2 hours is 8000 euros!)

Devlin

Err that's a surname and may have certain "connotations" in NI

A friend has just called her DS Odhran pronounced Oran.

Whilst I have all you Irish lot here - I need suggestions for a story to read to DS's class on St Patrick's Day. Have volunteered to be a 'mystery reader' as part of Book Week. They are 7/8 so want something that will interest them. I was thinking Children of Lir?

Ok unless any have stepmothers! It's a bit sad too...

Oisin in Tir na nOg would be my favourite... or Cuchulainn?

Lir is a nice name too.....

One of my brothers is Nolan. It's easy to pronounce and spell, but definitly Irish.

cuchulainn would be perfect for that age group... that's about the age we did it in school.

those of you with primary kids... do they still teach the irish legends as history? we learned about fionn mccool and cuchulainn from our primary history books, wasn't til years later they told us that it wasn't strictly history of the factual kind

Salmon of Knowledge? We have always had legends as a March Special in school...crossover history, literarure and a chunk of St Patrick.

Thanks guys - can't actually remember the stories so must get DS's Irish Legends book out. I sort of thought Children of Lir might be a bit much. Cuchulainn would be good.

I could do the story of St Patrick I suppose but I think they had that in detail in Year 1 as their teacher was Irish.

Don't have time to read all the posts, so these might be repeats: Declan, Eamonn, Cian, Cullen, Padraic.

Also quite like Hoyt...is Hoyt Irish?

I don't think there is a Y in gaelic, so I'm guessing no. It sounds kind of Dutch to me!

Aodh?

Eh?

I just found this book advertised - don't know if Nora's been making up Irish names or whether it's trad or what - but Samsmama isn't being completely mad!

Book sounds dreadful tho!!

MORRIGAN?S CROSS ? NORA ROBERTS

Standing on the cliffs of 12th century Ireland following the disappearance of his twin, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith is visited by the goddess Morrigan and is charged with the ultimate of tasks: saving his and all future worlds. His enemy ? the beautiful but deadly vampire queen Lilith ? has had over two thousand years? experience in cruelly killing and changing humans into her own kind ? including Hoyt?s brother, Cian. Now, Hoyt, a sorcerer, must travel across the world and through time to find and train the five others Morrigan has foretold will join him as a circle and do battle against Lilith?s army of vampires.