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TYPICALLY IRISH NAME

  • 30-05-2017 01:40PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭


    Hi ! I am looking for a name which is typicaly from Tyrone's region for my the main character of my new novel .
    Have you any suggestion ?
    Is O'Neill a good candidate ?


    Basicaly i want a character who reflect the tulmultuos history of this land with déportation to Americas by Cromwell .


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  • Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Patches O'Houlihan


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Murphy or Mugabe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Tadgh Rowan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Erinfan


    Patches O'Houlihan
    Imo not very common.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Gunmonkey


    Pat Mustard


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Phil McCracken


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    Hairy Cakelynam


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    Pat Magee


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    Philip McCrack


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Rumpy Pumpy


    Tyrone?

    Go with something like Owen McGarvan. The character should also be extremely dour and sour tempered, and with a huge chip on his shoulder about everything.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭elefant


    Hank Tree
    Luke Duke
    Spodo Komodo
    Hairy Cake Lynam


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Shamrocks O'Toole


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Hiroshima Twinkie
    Chewey Louie
    Todd Unctious


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    Hope you have a proofreader OP!

    But I can't wait to read the adventures of Muck McSavage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭tony 2 tone


    Tinfoil McHatty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭dub_skav


    Even people from Tyrone won't want to read a book about a guy from Tyrone, he should be from somewhere exotic and exciting, like Leitrim


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Erin O'Erinface


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 229 ✭✭Sosurface


    Erinfan wrote: »
    Hi ! I am looking for a name which is typicaly from Tyrone's region for my the main character of my new novel .
    Have you any suggestion ?
    Is O'Neill a good candidate ?
    Eoghan O'Neill. Hugh O'Donnell. Old as the hills and still plenty of lads knocking around that neck of the woods with those monikers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    OP, why not just open a phone book from the area and go with the most common name you can find?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Man or woman?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Hootie McBoob.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Erinfan


    Man or woman?
    A man .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Erinfan


    Shenshen wrote: »
    OP, why not just open a phone book from the area and go with the most common name you can find?
    Good Idea but time consumming .


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Christy Brown


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Erinfan wrote: »
    Good Idea but time consumming .
    David Kavanagh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Erinfan


    Shenshen wrote: »
    OP, why not just open a phone book from the area and go with the most common name you can find?
    Good Idea but time consumming .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,070 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Erinfan wrote: »
    Hi ! I am looking for a name which is typicaly from Tyrone's region for my the main character of my new novel .
    Have you any suggestion ?
    Is O'Neill a good candidate ?

    Wouldn't Mallon be a Tyrone name ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭PGE1970


    Sean Quinn

    ;)


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Dermot Drumm


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Erinfan wrote: »
    Good Idea but time consumming .

    Gonna be a very short novel, then, is it?


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