Learn about the Origin and Meaning of Irish Family Names as Kevin Flanagan shares an old writing by John O’Donovan that was published in the Young Irelander Newspaper (1918).
A lot has changed in Ireland since the writing of this article.
At the time of its writing, there were much fewer people in Ireland going by the Irish versions of their name.
Knowledge of clan history had waned through the 17th-19th centuries.
Here, O’Donovan recounts the origins and meanings of some of the primary clans of Ireland.
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