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Thread #111862   Message #2360747
Posted By: Geoff Wallis
08-Jun-08 - 01:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Wanted: list of Irish names w/English...
Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: list of Irish names w/English...
Cúchulainn is not pronounced 'Ku-kullin' - it's 'koo-hoo'lin'.

Gráinne should certainly not be Anglicised as 'Grace' - it does not have any equivalent form in English. The pirate Gráinne Ní Mháille became known 'Grace O'Malley', but that was through ignorance, not enlightenment.

Óisín is 'Osheen', not 'Usheen'.