12 November 2015

More from John Grenham in Irish Surnames

Dragging the old Gaelic surnames into English is this week's addition to John Grenham's Irish Roots series on surnames which concludes with the warning "As guides to ethnic origins, surnames in Ireland can be very treacherous indeed."

Previous posts in the series are:

How Gaelic surnames were Englished
Norman surnames
Viking surnames.


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