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TYPICALLY IRISH NAME

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  • #32
    Sofiztikated
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    A phone book is too much effort, and Google is a mystifying beast?

    Literally in less time it took you to write your original post, you could have googled "Popular names in county Tyrone" and got this

    "Common Surnames in Tyrone: Loughran, McGurk, Grimes, Monahan, Heagney, Skeffington, O'Neill, Harte, Clarke, McCusker, Quinn, Mullan, Kelly, Donnelly, Gallagher, McKenna, Campbell and Hughes"

    Then just stick any name in from, there you go, typical Tyrone name.

    And thus Shakira McCusker was born.


  • #33
    MRnotlob606
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    Spike Milligan


  • #34
    whoopsadoodles
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    Odhran O Conchubhair of course.


  • #35
    MRnotlob606
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    In all seriousness, I don't wanna knock the wind out of your sales, but if you're a novelist shouldn't you come up with the names yourself? rather than starting a thread on an internet forum. Kinda lacks originality and imagination.


  • #36
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    Sofiztikated wrote: »
    A phone book is too much effort, and Google is a mystifying beast?

    Literally in less time it took you to write your original post, you could have googled "Popular names in county Tyrone" and got this

    "Common Surnames in Tyrone: Loughran, McGurk, Grimes, Monahan, Heagney, Skeffington, O'Neill, Harte, Clarke, McCusker, Quinn, Mullan, Kelly, Donnelly, Gallagher, McKenna, Campbell and Hughes"

    Then just stick any name in from, there you go, typical Tyrone name.

    And thus Shakira McCusker was born.

    Trouble is you might end up with a wrong footed name


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  • #37
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    whoopsadoodles wrote: »
    Odhran O Conchubhair of course.

    You forgot the fada :p


  • #38
    whoopsadoodles
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    You forgot the fada :p

    The OP said he was deported to the Americas.

    You know that fadas don't travel well.


  • #39
    Shenshen
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    whoopsadoodles wrote: »
    The OP said he was deported to the Americas.

    You know that fadas don't travel well.

    They get jumbled up in transit. One of them ended up in the OP's déportation.... :D


  • #40
    red ears
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    Look up the Tyrone GAA team for ideas, Peter Canavan was their most famous player.


  • #41
    Boom_Bap
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    Worzel Gummidge. Very popular name.


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  • #42
    Yamanoto
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    Erinfan wrote: »
    I am looking for a name which is typicaly from Tyrone's region for my the main character of my new novel .

    Fonzie McEntaggart

    Simultaneously cool & uncool, just like folks from Tyrone


  • #43
    fizzypish
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    If you cant come up with a name on your own then I have a bad feeling about your plot......


  • #44
    Boom_Bap
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    Eulick McGee


  • #45
    ThisRegard
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    whoopsadoodles wrote: »
    Odhran O Conchubhair of course.

    Are you mad, he'll be closing off any chance for his character moving abroad and getting a job. He'll be left writing about what it's like in the dole queue.


  • #46
    Erinfan
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    fizzypish wrote: »
    If you cant come up with a name on your own then I have a bad feeling about your plot......
    My own is O'Neil. Like the name of legendary king of Tyronne .


  • #47
    diomed
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    Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »
    Tyrone?
    Go with something like Owen McGarvan. The character should also be extremely dour and sour tempered GAA footballer, and with a huge chip on his shoulder about everything.
    You've noticed that too?


  • #48
    biko
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    Fargo Boyle


  • #49
    maudgonner
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    biko wrote: »
    Fargo Boyle

    And the heroine could be Chris(tine) DeSheep.

    We all know the real reason Chris was so upset.


  • #50
    diomed
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    Paudie-Joe McGuckian


  • #51
    Persephone kindness
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    Amelia Mulvey.


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  • #52
    daveyeh
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    Tulmultu O'Hanrahanrahan.


  • #53
    Persephone kindness
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    I can't even say some of these!


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
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    H From Steps


  • #55
    Lorelli!
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    Hugh O'Neill. The Earl of Tyrone.


  • #56
    storker
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    Raboola Conundrum
    or
    Nigel Cholmondley-Farquharson


  • #57
    Caoimhgh1n
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    whoopsadoodles wrote: »
    Odhran O Conchubhair of course.

    Studies show that American employers are more likely to hire a Tom Murphy.


  • #58
    Persephone kindness
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    Caoimhgh1n wrote: »
    Studies show that American employers are more likely to hire a Tom Murphy.
    DeVore is in! :D


  • #59
    Barry Badrinath
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    Sir Barry McNordybollox-O'Rahily


  • #60
    donegal_man
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    Sofiztikated wrote: »
    A phone book is too much effort, and Google is a mystifying beast?

    Literally in less time it took you to write your original post, you could have googled "Popular names in county Tyrone" and got this

    "Common Surnames in Tyrone: Loughran, McGurk, Grimes, Monahan, Heagney, Skeffington, O'Neill, Harte, Clarke, McCusker, Quinn, Mullan, Kelly, Donnelly, Gallagher, McKenna, Campbell and Hughes"

    Then just stick any name in from, there you go, typical Tyrone name.

    And thus Shakira McCusker was born.

    Two ready made names right there, Clarke McCusker and his lovely wife Kelly Donnelly


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  • #61
    Sofiztikated
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    donegal_man wrote: »
    Two ready made names right there, Clarke McCusker and his lovely wife Kelly Donnelly

    You should write a novel.

    You're already ahead of the OP. Lead character AND love interest.

    Clarke McCusker, a native of Fivemiletown, and previous bigshot drummer in the Cavanaleck Pipe Band, and his dirty taig of a new wife are about to be find out.

    Will he stay true to those Loyalist roots, and give her up, or will love shine through, and his Red Hand Defenders tattoo get a course of laser removal?


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