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Anglo-Norman Irish dynasties (10 C, 7 P) I. Irish-language surnames (3 C, 87 P) O. O'Shaughnessy family (22 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Irish origin"
Ireland is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Ireland (disambiguation) Alexander Ireland (journalist) (1810–1894), Scottish journalist Alexander Ireland (boxer) (1901–1966), British boxer
Colloquially in Gaeltachtaí (Irish-speaking areas) and some other areas it remains customary to use a name formed by the first name (or nickname), followed by the father and the paternal grandfather's name, both in the genitive case, e.g. Seán Ó Cathasaigh (Seán O'Casey), son of Pól, son of Séamus, would be known to his neighbours as Seán Phóil Shéamuis.
O'Devlin (Irish: Ó Doibhlin) [1] is the surname of a Gaelic Irish family of the Uí Néill who were chiefs in the far northeastern of the present-day County of Tyrone, bordering on Lough Neagh and the Ballinderry River.
In Ireland, Prendergast is regarded as a Hiberno-Norman name and is usually derived from a 12th-century Cambro-Norman knight, Maurice de Prendergast, who was born in Pembrokeshire and came to Ireland with the Earl of Pembroke, Richard "Strongbow" de Clare.
Moran (Irish: Ó Móráin) is a modern Irish surname derived from membership of a medieval dynastic sept. The name means a descendant of Mórán. “Mor” in Gaelic translates as big or great and “an” as the prefix the. Morans were a respected sept of the Uí Fiachrach dynasty in the western counties of Mayo and Sligo.