Story and audio by Maureen O’Hare, illustrations by Leah Abucayan, CNN (CNN) — Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish names can seem ...

Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish names can seem like a daunting ambush of rogue consonants and surprise vowels. That’s because ...

Having a hard-to-pronounce Irish name is no picnic when living in the US! Blogger Bláthnaid Giles explores the difficulties, questions, and humorous moments that arise when you have a name with just ...

It’s a beautiful city, brimming with Irish American history. They literally dye the Chicago River green every year for St. Patrick’s Day. Yet, as David Elkin at the Daily Edge recently illuminated, ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...