Irish names you’re probably saying wrong and how to pronounce them
Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish names can seem like a daunting ambush of rogue consonants and surprise vowels.
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‘Ireland, more than other countries, ought to be a country of trees’
ought to be a country of trees” since the letters in the modern Irish alphabet are derived from Ogham letters named after trees. (The first entry under each letter in Dinneen’s Irish-English ...