It’s St. Paddy’s Eve, y’all! ❤ 😀 ❤
I’m really excited to be speaking tonight at a dinner for Irish Catholic women on the usage of the name of Mary by the Irish in Ireland and America — I’ll be sharing a little history, a little language, and some really cool names (like my fave Miles that I’m always pushing on all of you!), and the comments you all left on this post were tremendously helpful! Go raibh maith agat! (“Thank you” in Irish!)
One of my college roommates sent me this article, which I thought was pretty great: Irish Names: Here are 17 unusual ones to give your baby by Nameberry cofounder Pamela Redmond Satran. Some of my personal faves are on there, like Emer (one of the co-founders of the student pro-life group at the university I attended in Ireland was Emer, so I have all good feelings for the name) and Nuala and Senan, and I’ve been crushing on recently on Fia/Fiadh. (Kind of reminds me of Fiat … hmmm …)
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I’ve also got a special treat lined up tomorrow — a bonus consultation for an Irish name for the seventh baby/sixth boy of this mama colleen (who’s an actual Mama Colleen)! I can’t wait! I’m also totally cracking up over the in-utero nickname she says they have for the Little Mister:
“Enda Dunn. It’s an Irish name that means “Mom and Dad are really, really tired.” 🙂 “
Finally, I think you’ll probably all enjoy this article: Staunchly defending second-hand blarney. It’s an Irish Times piece from 2001, when I was the New York Rose in the Rose of Tralee Festival in Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland, and while it doesn’t paint the greatest picture of the Festival (the author was definitely snarky before snarky was even a word), it says quite nice things about me. 🙂 I was doing some paperwork this morning and came across it and it made me laugh out loud. 😀 (I’ve actually tried to figure out who the author was, so I can thank him — he says some of the nicest things about me anyone’s ever said. Am I just missing his name? Can anyone help me out?)
If you’re finding all this greeny green tiresome already, I apologize, because I’m kind of a handful about all this. 😀 But if you love all things Irish as I do, be sure to look back over my old posts tagged “Irish names” and I ‘ll even repost this video, because I love it:
And for all of you who love to read to your little ones, check out Finney the Leprechaun and his faith-filled story-rhymes (the drawing of the church in this post may or may not have been drawn by my oldest boy ((proud mama face)) ).
That’s all I have for now, but I’m not promising I won’t be back again later today with more! We’ll see! 😉
I can’t believe I had completely forgotten about Myles being a Marian name! It actually works really well as a middle name with our leading contender (Gabriel). Off to text my husband!
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Hooray!!!!! That’s so so great!!!!
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That’s so exciting Kate!! I’ll be praying that your talk goes well 🙂
I really like the idea of Fia! It seems like it would super fit in with todays popular names! Good alternative to Mia if that’s too popular!
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Yes! I’ve also heard it as a nickname for Sophia/Sofia, so cute!
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Also, thanks for the prayers re: my talk! I’m excited about it!
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I have a friend named Roisin (Ro-SHEEN) who has a daughter named Aoibheann (Ee-VEEN). They live in California and she says, “At the Doctor’s we’re Raisin and Autobahn.”
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Hahahahaha!!! Raisin and Autobahn!!!
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I’m so excited!!!!!!! I’ve literally been counting down the days until the post tomorrow 🙂
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Aww yayyy!!!
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I was actually thinking yesterday – I should ask your opinion of the name Fiat. Probably for a middle name. At one point (and maybe still) I liked the idea of Marian Fiat for my girl. Mary’s yes, without which we would have nothing. A good reminder of the right way to live and to answer God’s call.
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Fiat…..hmmm, interesting. For me, it would probably be too Italian car, but it might make an interesting middle
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Ahhh yes, the car! One of the tour guides when I was in Italy said Fiat means “Fit it again Tony” hahaha!
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I love that!! I’ve thought of Fiat for a name, but didn’t really know how it would play out … but I love Marian Fiat!!
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I’m not sure how it would play either, but even the car Fiat now reminds me of the Holy Father’s modest pope-mobile.
And of course I hear buzz about Tesla as a name and it’s also a car company.
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Very true! And Mercedes is a Marian name … I’m just really loving Marian Fiat, that is such an amazing combo.
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Latin meaning “let it be done,” this word appears in the Latin translation of Genesis, the first book of the bible, when God proclaimed “let there be light” (fiat lux). -blog.dictionary.com/fiat/
I don’t remember where I picked it up, maybe on retreat somewhere. I just remember thinking – that is a really cool sounding word.
Could you imagine the sib set Mercedes, Porche and Fiat, haha. I would never do that though myself.
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Ahhh that’s hilarious!! Merdedes, Porche (or Portia!), and Fiat!
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With brothers Ford and Dodge of course.
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Hahahahaha!!
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