| BEGINNERS' BLAS
SLOINNTE/ SURNAMES
 Each
week on Beginners' Blas Charlie Dillon explored the origin and history
of a different Irish sloinne or surname. Listen again to the pieces or
read the text version.
O'Grady/Gillen/McMenamin/
McMenamy
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi ... Read more
Dubh/Black
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi ... Read more
Ó Dochartaigh/Ó Donnghaile
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi ... Read more
Ó Maol . . .
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi... Read more
Eleanore Conant is doing research in the
University of Ulster in Coleraire into certain surnames which are precived
to be Irish in origin. However, the study of DNA has proved otherwise...
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Moore, Mallon/Mellon, and Carville / Carroll / Carolan
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi ... Read more
Animal Surnames
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi ... Read more
Mac Con
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi... Read more...
Conlan / Conlon
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi... Read more
Irish surnames in the Ballycastle region
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi... Read more
Irish surnames which have their roots in professions
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi... Read more
Quinns and O’ Hares
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'MAC' and 'Ó'
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Names which begin with ‘de’ in Irish
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi na sloinnte normannacha... Read more
Ó
Néill
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to Charlie
Tuilleadh
eolais faoi Ó Néill... Read more
Ó Domhnaill or O’ Donnell
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‘Murphy’ has two forms in Irish ‘Ó Murchú’
and ‘Mac Murchaidh’
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi ‘Ó Murchú’... Read
more
Aodh
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi 'Aodh'
... Read more
Gallagher
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Tuilleadh
eolais faoi 'Gallagher' ... Read more
Mag Uidhir or Maguire
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