The Surnames of Ireland (Paperback)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 314 pages
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press (June 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0716523663
• ISBN-13: 978-0716523666
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #486,967 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Work, January 10, 2000

By	domhnall (brooklyn, ny) - See all my reviews

I have used this book repeatedly for my personal studies of Irish Gaelic. It is the definitive work on the subject. It goes so far as to indicate modern (often shortened) Gaelic spellings alongside of the originals so that a name's devivation is evidant. So too are inventions (ie. late-Norman) and borrow-names (ie. Nordic or English) indicated. What did not make it here, appears in the suppliment More Irish Names. Definately not for researchers of their family history (try McLoughlin), but rather the study of the nominclature, the Irish language, or entomology.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great starting point for Irish surname research, October 20, 1998

By	Eddie Geoghegan (Ireland) - See all my reviews

If you are looking for a detailed family history, this is not the book for you. But it does list thousands of surnames found in Ireland along with three or four lines summarising origin and location. It also includes many rare and exotic sounding names which you will not find in any other book. This book is a starting point only and the serious researcher should also have "Irish Families" and "More Irish Families" by the same author if he is looking for detailed information.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Poor Antrim County, February 1, 2000

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an excellent book in general, but a very short on native Irish Antrim county names; sometimes confusing them with Hebridean Scottish ones. And God help you if you have an obscure Irish name.. it will not be there.