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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like Oona because it reminds me of a finn maccool story.

I am half Irish and my mother always said that the Irish transliterated all the Irish words in the most confusing way possible just to mess with the English.  She also said that people speaking Orish always sounded like the had a mouth full of marbles, though.

I feel like Sinead. Siobhan, and Orla are all well enough known to be manageable if you aren’t too picky about the accent.

Funny but Ive got back to the early 19th century in my irish family and can’t find a single “irish” (gaelic) name.  I don’t count Nora because that’s latin (short for Honore).  So many Mary, Ellen, Patrick and Terrances!  [/quote]

My family is also Irish (greatgrandparents born there) and there are enough people named  John, Michael, Patrick, Mary, Margaret, and Kathleen in my family to fill a small catholic school. I looked at my mom’s high school yearbook once and there were literally like 20 people named Mary in the high school with 500 kids. [/quote]

Hello, my Irish cousin PP! My oldest is Bridget, age 21 and named for her great-great aunt and sister of Mary Catherine, born circa 1880. Their family had several generations of Nora/Mary/Marion/Margaret/Kathleen/Katherine/John/Joseph/Michael/William/Edward/James/Patrick ...those were THE names and used in first and middle combinations. Things changed only in my generation with cousin named Timothy Sean.

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