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Middle names

  • 22-09-2018 12:26pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭


    Following on from the killer thread -
    Do any of you have 'opposite sex' middle names? I once volunteered the opinion that calling boys 'Mary' as a middle name was strange and a bit unfair - only to find the person I was talking to had given all their boys the middle name of Mary.

    I don't have a middle name, I was going to have one but then my parents decided it was 'affected' to have a middle name and they saved it for the next child.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,409 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    same here. Except the reason I don't have a middle name is because my Dad didn't. All his brothers and sisters did. My sister does, it's just him and me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,413 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    My dad didn't have a middle either and when offered a job with a particular employer they insisted he must have or get a middle name

    His first name was Liam and his solution was to call himself Liam Liam , his first name and second name being the same.


  • Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    Danger is my middle name.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,961 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    I once knew a boy named Sue


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Back in the good old days no Irish person would be a sufficient heretic to give their child the name Máire (or Pádraig or Íosa).

    Damned Normans in their irreverence started that tradition. The Irish way was to insert a prefix - e.g. Maol Mhuire (devotee of the Virgin Mary), Giolla Phádraig (Servant of St Pádraig), Giolla Íosa (Servant of Jesus), etc. There's a similar tradition of reverence in Spanish nomenclature - e.g. Dolores means "sorrows", from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary, María de los Dolores, meaning "Mary of Sorrows".

    Ó Maoil Mhuire = descendant of the devotee of the virgin Mary, now anglicised as Mullery, Mulry etc.

    Mac Giolla Phádraig = son of Giolla Phádraig; now anglicised as Fitzpatrick etc (the only 'Fitz' surname of Gaelic origin)
    Mac Giolla Íosa, = son of Giolla Íosa, now anglicised as McAleese etc.

    'Muls' and 'Gils' in Irish surnames


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Friend of mine at school came from a very devout Catholic family who had given all of their children, boys and girls, the middle name "Mary".


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