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The Irish girl name of ‘Gormlaith’ means ‘queen’ or ‘sovereign’. It was a popular name in Ireland during medieval times, including the wife of Brian Boru. What Irish name means little queen? In Italy, many cantari or oral poems performed in the public square about Tristan or referencing him. These poems include Cantari di Tristano, Due Tristani Quando Tristano e Lancielotto combattiero al petrone di Merlino, Ultime Imprese e Morte Tristano, and Vendetta che fe Messer Lanzelloto de la Morte di Messer Tristano, among others. Dr Ciara Kelly pictured at the Princess Cruises charity lunch in aid of the Rape Crisis Centre at the Conrad Hotel,Dublin. Meaning “little deer.” In Irish mythology, Oisin was a poet-hero, son of legendary warrior Fionn MacCool and the goddess Sive. His mother was turned into a deer by the Dark Druid, and she raised him in the forest for seven years; when his father found him while hunting, he recognized the boy as his own son and gave him the name “little deer.” O'Connell, hereditary castellans of Ballycarbery Castle. From this sept came Daniel O'Connell of Derrynane, "The Liberator."

A. Forte, R. Oram, and F. Pederson. Viking Empires. 1st. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-521-82992-5. On 25 August 1170, following the Norman invasion of Ireland that her father had requested, she was married to Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, better known as Strongbow, the leader of the Norman invasion force, in Christchurch cathedral in Waterford. Her father, Dermot MacMurrough, who was seeking a military alliance with Strongbow in his feud with the King of Breffni, Tiernan O'Rourke, had promised Aoife to Pembroke. However, according to Brehon law, both the man and the woman had to consent to the marriage, so it is fair to conclude that Aoife accepted her father's arrangements. [1] Nicholls, K. W., Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages. Dublin: Lilliput Press. 2nd edition, 2003.Historic England. "Church of St Bega (1332957)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 27 March 2014. Jeffrey Gantz (translator), Culhwch and Olwen, from The Mabinogion, Penguin, 1976. ISBN 0-14-044322-3 This beautiful Irish name is derived from the Lady Clodagh Anson, the daughter of the fifth Marquess of Waterford, who was named after the River Clodagh that runs through Waterford. This name means cub or puppy from the Gaelic word “cailean.” It can also be used as a diminutive of the name Nicholas, which means victor or victorious people. This festive time coincides with the vernal equinox, one of the two midpoints of the sun’s annual cycle, in the season of new fertility, when days are poised to outlast nights for the first time since the autumn equinox, the previous September. An emphasis on new life and procreation is manifest in a host of mythological incarnations and folk reflexes at this time of the year. The goddess and holy woman Brigid is celebrated on February 1st; the analogous figure of Gobnait, goddess of fertility and beekeeping, is commemorated on February 11th. These women usher in the new cycle of fertility with ploughing, sowing, the birth of animals, the rising of the sap and the reawakening of nature.

Bruce, Christopher W. (1999). The Arthurian name dictionary. Taylor & Francis. p.271. ISBN 0-8153-2865-6 . Retrieved 2022-01-27. This name is likely derived from the Gaelic word "albho" which means ‘white.’ In Irish legend, this was the name of a female warrior in the Fianna. Melkorka ( Old Norse: [ˈmelˌkorkɑ]; Modern Icelandic: [ˈmɛlˌkʰɔr̥ka]) is the name given in Landnámabók and Laxdæla saga for the Irish mother of the Icelandic goði Ólafr Höskuldsson. It is possible that her name represents the Early Irish Mael Curcaig. [1] This name means white, light, or pale. Some believe it to mean sallow, pale green, or “little pale green one.” Early French Tristan Poems", from Norris J. Lacy (editor), Arthurian Archives, Cambridge, England; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 1998. ISBN 0-8240-4034-1A variation of the name Finnguala, which means ‘fair shoulder’ or ‘white shoulder,’ from “fionn” meaning white and “guala” meaning shoulder. The register of St Bees Priory records several miracles by the power of prayer to St Bega. In 1310 "God worked many miracles by the prayers and merits of St Bega...to the edification of all the people with many eye-witnesses". In 1313, "A certain Irish boy received his sight in the chapel of St Bega through the merits and prayers of the said virgin, all the community seeing it". [4] Modern scholarship [ edit ] A well-known figure with the name is Saint Bronagh, a 6 th-century saint and reputed founder of Kilbroney. 10. Ciara – a Co. Tipperary saint This name means “without enemy.” It has been the name of kings, heroes, and saints. In Irish legend, Diarmuid was the lover of Grainne, and the most beloved member of the warrior band the Fianna. “Dermot” is the Anglicized version. This name means "sea white, sea fair." In Irish mythology, this was the name of a 6th century mermaid caught by a fisherman in Lough Neagh. He brought her to St. Comghall, who baptized her, transforming her into a woman.

This name means “maiden” or “daughter” from the Gaelic word “inghean” It can also be translated as “innocent” or “blameless.”

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This gorgeous Irish name is pronounced ‘ash-ling’ and derives from the Gaelic word aislinge for a 17 th-century poetic form. Bega is associated in legend with a number of miracles, the most famous being the "Snow miracle", which is described in the Life of St Bega thus: MacLysaght, Edward, Irish Families: Their Names, Arms and Origins. Irish Academic Press. 4th edition, 1998. This name is rooted in the Irish word bronach, which means sad or sorrowful. Saint Bronagh is a venerated figure in Co. Down, where the name is popular. Lorraine Keane pictured at the Princess Cruises charity lunch in aid of the Rape Crisis Centre at the Conrad Hotel,Dublin.

Tristan and Iseult, also known as Tristan and Isolde and other names, is a medieval chivalric romance told in numerous variations since the 12th century. [1] Based on a Celtic legend and possibly other sources, the tale is a tragedy about the illicit love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult. It depicts Tristan's mission to escort Iseult from Ireland to marry his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. On the journey, Tristan and Iseult ingest a love potion (magically crafted by Iseult's mother and guarded by Brangaine, Iseult's handmaid), instigating a forbidden love affair between them. The account of Bega's flight from Ireland is found in the Life of St Bega, [5] part of a collection of various English saints' lives that belonged to Holmcultram Abbey in Abbeytown, Cumbria, and is dated to the mid-13th century. The Life continues: A version of the snow miracle is also found in the Sandford manuscript; it was written in English after the dissolution of the Benedictine priory in 1539, and was formerly in the Dean and Chapter archives at Carlisle Cathedral. This garbled account is a less probable version than that in the Life, [4] and sets the miracle in the days of St Bega herself. Pronounced ‘kee-vah’, Caoimhe was the daughter of Fionn mac Cumhail in Irish mythology. 7. Meabh – from Queen Meabh Credit: commons.wikimedia.org The legend received a high-budget treatment with 2006's Tristan & Isolde, produced by Tony Scott and Ridley Scott, written by Dean Georgaris, directed by Kevin Reynolds, and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles. In this version, Tristan is a Cornish warrior raised from a young age by Lord Marke after being orphaned when his parents are killed. In a fight with the Irish, Tristan defeats Morholt, the Irish King's second, but is poisoned during the battle, which dulls his senses. Believing Tristan is dead, his companions send him off in a boat meant to cremate a dead body. Meanwhile, Isolde leaves her home over an unwilling betrothal to Morholt and finds Tristan on the Irish coast.a b Norris J. Lacy et al. "Gottfried von Strassburg" from The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, New York: Garland, 1991. Some scholars suggest that the 11th-century Persian story Vis and Rāmin is the model for the Tristan legend because the similarities are too significant to be coincidental. [7] [8] [9] However, the evidence for the Persian origin of Tristan and Iseult is very circumstantial. [10] Some suggest the Persian story traveled to the West with story-telling exchanges in a Syrian court during crusades. [8] Others believe the story came West with minstrels who had free access to both Crusader and Saracen camps in the Holy Land. [11] Roman [ edit ] Find sources: "Tristan and Iseult"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( November 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Carmel Breheny pictured at the Princess Cruises charity lunch in aid of the Rape Crisis Centre at the Conrad Hotel,Dublin.