The acute accent seen over a few of the letters on this list is known as a fada ; it lengthens the pronunciation of the vowel. Aisling is a common feminine name with many variants, including Aislin and Aislinn, as well as the anglicised versions of Ashlyn and Ashlynn. The name comes from the word for dream or vision and previously referred to a genre of Irish-language poetry that flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Pronounced pawd-rig , other versions include Padraic pawd-ric and Paraic paw-ric. We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements. To allow us to provide a better and more tailored experience please click "OK". Sign Up. Travel Guides. Videos Beyond Hollywood Hungerlust Pioneers of love.
Niall McGrade. Give us feedback. I love her name but most people pronounce it a-o-fee quite annoying after 10 times of telling them. My 5th daughter is Aoife named after my godmother and great Aunt Eva. My american friends cannot say it correctly.
Funny and also annoying as I grew up with the Children of Lir story and did my art project of Aoife. I named my daughter Aoife. I feel in love with this name. Btw I pronounce it ee-fa. Like wtf lol. I think this is a beautiful name, and one I hope to use if we have a baby girl.
Such a unique and lovely alternative to the over-popular Ava and Eva. But at school it can be a bit annoying sometimes as almost no one knows how to say your name. As this name was already popular prior to both widespread literacy and the spelling modernizations introduced in the s, there was plenty of time for different spellings to take root in different communities.
Other examples include:. She invites him to join her there, but if he does—he can never come back. Some confusion with Irish name pronunciation occurs when one grows so common that people begin to drop the fadas that might otherwise direct the pronouncer. With a nod to Michaelangelo's The Creation of Adam , I like the idea of a flower-crowned king protecting our most vulnerable and most valuable asset; nature itself!
Older dictionaries also define it as a seed—something small with great potential. Pronounced graw-in-yah. I gave a nod to Gustav Klimt's The Kiss in this illustration, as it's an artwork that evokes both opulence and overwhelming love in my mind. In he set up the popular Twitter account called theirishfor, sharing all things fascinating and beautiful about the Irish language.
President Michael D. Higgins has described his work as "an innovative humorous but substantial project to promote our love and interest in our native language. Fatti Burke is an illustrator from Co. Waterford, Ireland. She has been working as a freelance illustrator since she graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Her work revolves around the things she loves—food, home, jokes, colors, and tradition.
Her first three bestselling publications in children's non-fiction [ I relandopedia , Historopedia , and Focloiropedia ] were a collaboration with her regular teammate, her father John Burke.
Una Gildea is an artist and illustrator who uses animation, collage, painting and drawing in her work.
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