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Séamus Healy (born 1950), Irish politician; Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet, writer and lecturer; Séamus Hearne (1932–2008), Irish hurler; Seamus Heath (born 1961), Northern Irish former association football midfielder and coach; Séamus Heery (1927–2014), Irish Gaelic footballer
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
During the "Irish revival", some Irish names which had fallen out of use were revived. Some names are recent creations, such as the now-common female names Saoirse "freedom" and Aisling "vision, dream". Some English-language names are anglicisations of Irish names, e.g. Kathleen from Caitlín and Shaun from Seán.
There are a few reasons for all this wide variation in Irish spelling, says Ó Séaghdha. One is that “often those names were popular before people knew how to spell. A relatively old name like ...
The Irish spelling is Dearbhla — and not surprisingly, that wasn’t used either. Donnacha — This popular boys’ name in Ireland is pronounced dunn-ah-ka , and means “brown-haired warrior.”
Seumas (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈʃeːməs]) is a masculine given name in Scottish Gaelic and Scots, [1] equivalent to the English James. [2] The vocative case of the Scottish Gaelic Seumas is Sheumais, which has given form to the Anglicised form of this name, Hamish. [3]
This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate, in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.
Television personality Lorraine Kelly tweeted: “Loving Seamus the Irish Wolfhound – effortlessly stealing the show.” Seema Malhotra, the MP for Feltham and Heston, added: “Last year I had ...