Product Description: Since it's first publication 20 years ago, there has been both change and stability among favorite Irish names for children. This book lists and glosses more than 200 of the most popular Irish names for boys and girls. It gives a short, authoritative commentary on each headline name, offers a complete list of alternative spellings and anglicized forms, and contains notes on the origins of each name with particular reference to the original holders...read more

Product Description: Surnames of North West Ireland. Concise Histories of the Major Surnames of Ga.... Clearfield, 2009.

People are keen to delve back to early civilisations from which family ancestors came. Divided by sex with Gaelic spellings and name variations, as well as the origins and meanings of names, this book presents a guide to Celtic names. It draws on Celtic history and culture to provide expectant parents with over 2,500 beautiful names.

Presents a unusual guide to baby names that draws on Irish history and culture to offer hundreds of names, alphabetically organized into such thematic categories as famous Irish personages, Irish saints, Celtic animals and plants, and magic, myth, and legend. Original.

Product Description: Together with the original Irish families, this book presents the result of the labours of Dr Edward MacLysaght. They will stand as a monument to this scholar. Libraries and genealogists who wish to have an encyclopaedia of Irish name lore at their elbow will invest in this rara avis, a definitive work...read more

Product Description: Looks at the 200 most popular Irish Christian names, with a short, witty and authoritative commentary on each. The book details the origin of each name and - in the case of saints' names - gives a potted life of the original eponym...read more