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.

Irish names like Siobhan and Cillian have unique pronunciations, often confusing for non-Irish speakers. The Irish language uses the Latin alphabet differently, with letters representing various ...

She wrote that “Ireland, more than other countries, ought to be a country of trees” since the letters in the modern Irish alphabet are derived from Ogham letters named after trees.