Americanized Anglasized Irish Names

snubbleste · 04-01-2014 07:37PM

FatherTed wrote: »

My daughter's friend is named after a town in Cork. Really she is. 3 claps for whoever can guess her name.

Ovens
Ringaskiddy
Dyke Parade
Baile Mhuirne

Billy86 · 04-01-2014 08:00PM

To Monte, or to Montenotte?

SpaceTime · 04-01-2014 08:03PM

FatherTed wrote: »

My daughter's friend is named after a town in Cork. Really she is.
3 claps for whoever can guess her name.

Newtwopothouse ?
Bweeng?
Belgooly?
Halfway?
Leap?
Union Hall?
Fountainstown?
Father Todd Unctious?

Paramite Pie · 04-01-2014 08:32PM

endacl wrote: »

Don't get me started on folks naming girls Naoise....

But Naoise is a boys name!!!!!!:eek:

seamus wrote: »

It's this curious thing us Irish do. Probably comes from the attempted forced Gaelicisation of children in primary.

It's not so long ago that it was standard across Europe. Since most names were of Biblical origin and the Bible was translated into many languages, it was easy to trace the origins of the name.

Even in history class we say Joseph instead of Ioseb Stalin which was his actual name. In Germany they call him Josef. The Spanish call the UK's Queen 'Isabel II'. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_II_del_Reino_Unido

Just wiki someone famous (especially historical) and click on a foreign version of the article and often the name will be translated.

While I'm against forcing another name on a person, you make it seem like it's a uniquely Irish thing. It's international.:cool:

FatherTed wrote: »

My daughter's friend is named after a town in Cork. Really she is.
3 claps for whoever can guess her name.

I bet it's Cobh. Which isn't even a historical Irish placename, just a Gaelicisation of the English word 'Cove'. Any name was better than Queenstown.

Did they name her 'Queenstown'?:pac:

SarahBM · 04-01-2014 08:43PM

Just tell us the answer already!

Its Skibereen! I bet its Skibereen!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 04-01-2014 08:58PM

Annabella?

MJ23 · 04-01-2014 09:22PM

Langer?

Fred Swanson · 04-01-2014 09:23PM

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FatherTed · 05-01-2014 11:15PM

cameramonkey wrote: »

Gougane Barra?

endacl wrote: »

Surely not Halfway?!?

My name is URL wrote: »

Dripsey?

Eeden wrote: »

Ah, poor old New Two Pot House....

Aineoil wrote: »

Bandon?

fussyonion wrote: »

Road-out-of-this-place-straight-to-Dublin?

SarahBM wrote: »

Glanmire

mathepac wrote: »

Castletownbere? Adrilgole? Bantry (BAN-try)? Ballydehob?

WilyCoyote wrote: »

Butt. Short for Buttevant

silvervixen84 wrote: »

Mallow?

snubbleste wrote: »

Ovens
Ringaskiddy
Dyke Parade
Baile Mhuirne

SpaceTime wrote: »

Newtwopothouse ?
Bweeng?
Belgooly?
Halfway?
Leap?
Union Hall?
Fountainstown?
Father Todd Unctious?

SarahBM wrote: »

Just tell us the answer already!

Its Skibereen! I bet its Skibereen!

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Annabella?

MJ23 wrote: »

Langer?

Nobody has gotten it yet.... go on...

Billy86 · 05-01-2014 11:19PM

Like I said, is it Montenotte?

Please tell me it's Montenotte! :pac:

Eeden · 05-01-2014 11:20PM

Annabella?

awec · 05-01-2014 11:20PM

mango salsa wrote: »

I would have said O'Ma honey

I always hear O'Mahoney pronounced as O'Maaaaaaaaaaaaneee.

idunno78 · 05-01-2014 11:31PM

SarahBM wrote: »

Watching the film Dragon Heart (starring Denis Quaid) years ago I heard what I thought was a beautiful name, pronounced "Eehs-linn".

when the credits came up I wanted to see how it was spelt. Turns out it was just Aisling. LOL Maybe thats just the Welsh/Anglo-Saxon way of saying it. If I did want to name my daughter "Eehs-linn" though, how would you spell it ?!?!? !

Ha remind me of The Face on sky. I loved one of the girls names 'El-e-ann-a' it was actually Elaine!!

feargale · 05-01-2014 11:41PM

Midleton

playedalive · 06-01-2014 09:35AM

When I was working in a bar one summer, one American girl found out I was Irish. She then got all excited and told me that her surname was Fitzgerald. But not spelt that way, but Fitz Gerald (as in a two worded surname)

Davidius · 06-01-2014 09:50AM

playedalive wrote: »

When I was working in a bar one summer, one American girl found out I was Irish. She then got all excited and told me that her surname was Fitzgerald. But not spelt that way, but Fitz Gerald (as in a two worded surname)

There's nothing necessarily wrong with separating it into two words in the written form. Etymologically it is two words. Fitz (Norman French for Son) and Gerald.

Rachiee · 06-01-2014 10:20AM

Is the the little one called neidin ? The song makes it sound like a girls name.

Corruptedmorals · 06-01-2014 11:01AM

Goleen?

FatherTed · 06-01-2014 02:15PM

Nobody has gotten yet which is surprising. Jeez, I might have to start giving clues tomorrow. Bunch of dumbasses ye are.

FTA69 · 06-01-2014 02:20PM

Waterfall?

Reenascreena?

Conna?

06-01-2014 02:31PM

Annabella?
Cullen?
Innishannon?
Liscarrol?
Sallybrook?

SuperGrover · 06-01-2014 02:56PM

Laragh?

Wompa1 · 06-01-2014 03:06PM

Hi My Name is Rory, I'm from Ireland= Hi My Name is Corey, I'm from Maryland.

Rory=Roy, Corey or Ohhh like that Golfer...

Sleepy · 06-01-2014 03:22PM

TBH, I find the changing of existing names spellings to be "a bit different" far worse than names being anglicised. A cousin of mine seems to think being "Susann" makes her look exotic (as opposed to just ****ing moronic) than the "Susan" that's on her birth cert :rolleyes:

Other examples: Clayre, Kyra, Jayne, Aliviya etc.

Umekichi · 06-01-2014 03:32PM

snubbleste wrote: »

Beibhinn or Gobnait or Diarmuid
How can others pronounce that?

First one is my name and well it is hell getting Irish people to pronounce and/or spell it correctly let alone anyone not Irish. So much so the I just go by Bev, much easier and saves so much hassle!

One time when I was in my last job, a customer was telling me "Oh,your English is very good" and I was like *confused* "I'm Irish" and the customer was like "Oh! I thought you were Polish! Your name is very strange."

You'd be surprised how often that happened

Rhys Essien · 06-01-2014 03:56PM

In England its gas how they cant say Doherty.Poor old Ken was always known as Ken Doetee.How hard is it to say 'Dawherty'.

Also Cork place/Girls name,Im going with Ballylickey shortened to Lickey.

MadsL · 06-01-2014 05:26PM

Applause wrote: »

It absolutely grinds my gears when I see people with their name spelt "Neeve"or "Keeva", is there any need like?

Never seen Neeve. Keeva is a name in it's own right and not necessarily an anglicisation of Caoimhe. It also has Hebrew and Romanian roots.

Semele wrote: »

I got talking to an American man a few years ago who was doing the whole Irish roots bit. As proof of his ancestry (not that I was denying it btw) he told me he'd named his daughter 'a traditional Irish name'. Her name turned out to be Erin Colleen, potentially the most American sounding name I've ever heard!

I have lost count of the Erins I have met in the states, never one in Ireland.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 07-01-2014 09:47PM

FatherTed wrote: »

Nobody has gotten yet which is surprising. Jeez, I might have to start giving clues tomorrow. Bunch of dumbasses ye are.

I think it's time for clues.

Míshásta · 07-01-2014 11:48PM

endacl wrote: »

No they don't. There's no English version of Seán. John is Eoin.

Common mistake. Interestingly, and off topic, this mistake is a factoid. Another factoid is the common misunderstanding of the term 'factoid'.

I think you are probably the one who has it wrong. John, Seán and Eoin are all closely related.

Eoin came into the country very early, after Christianity. An Irish form of the biblical "John"

Seán is derived from the Norman French "Jean" which also derived from the biblical John.

"Seán" is the almost universally used form of the English John in contemporary Irish - it is not incorrect.

The Irish form of Saint John however is still Naomh Eoin.

dxhound2005 · 07-01-2014 11:50PM

FatherTed wrote: »

Nobody has gotten yet which is surprising. Jeez, I might have to start giving clues tomorrow. Bunch of dumbasses ye are.

Sheep's Head ?

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