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Breathnach
Breathnach or Bhreathnach (meaning ''Welshman'') is an Irish surname, indicating an ancestor who was Welsh. It is the Irish-language version of surnames such as Brannagh, Brunnock, Brannick, Walsh, Wallace, and Wallis. However, it does not necessarily mean that the ancestor concerned was from modern-day Wales; Robert Bell notes that Wallace was a surname indicating a Briton native of Strathclyde or any part of the Latin name Wallensis meant just that. It can also refer to the Cambro-Normans (later Hiberno-Normans) that were of Norman origin, but came to Ireland via Wales. The name appears in twelfth-century records of Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, parts of the old Strathclyde kingdom ... Wallace has also been used as a synonym of Walsh." (Bell, p. 244). The best known bearer of the name from the area was Uilleam Breatnach (William Wallace). John de Courcy (1160–1219) planted significant numbers of Britons of Cumbria during his lordship of Ulster. Gaelic-Irish sources such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cárthach Bán Breathnach
Cárthach Bán Breathnach is an Irish actor and broadcaster. As an actor, he is known for his roles in the TG4 series ''Aifric'' and the Irish language soap opera ''Ros na Rún''. Bán Breathnach comes from Indreabhán in the Connemara Gaeltacht and is the son of radio broadcaster Seán Bán Breathnach. Career Bán Breathnach played the role of Jimín Ó Gríofa in the Irish language series, ''Aifric''. The first series of ''Aifric'' was screened in 2006. Cárthach also played the role of Aodhán, a secondary school student posing as a doctor, in the soap ''Ros na Rún''. His twin, Léan Bán Breathnach, also acted in both ''Aifric'' and ''Ros na Rún''. Bán Breathnach worked as a DJ on the local west of Ireland radio station i102-104. He has also contributed to sports programs on RTÉ and TG4. Sport At university, Breathnach was involved with NUI Maynooth GAA and a member of their Sigerson Cup football team. As of 2019, Breathnach was hurling manager with his local Gaeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cormac Breathnach
Cormac Breathnach (1885 – 29 May 1956) was an Irish politician and primary school teacher. Early life He was born in Iveragh, County Kerry in 1885, and known in his younger years as Charlie Walsh. He was the son of Seán Breathnach, a farmer, and Cáit Breathnach (née Chonchubhair). He was educated at the local national school in Ballinakilla, County Kerry (where he was a monitor), and qualified as a national school teacher from the Marlborough Training College in Dublin. Teaching Prior to entering politics Breathnach was a teacher. A fluent Irish-speaker, for a period he was engaged by Conradh na Gaeilge to teach Irish language and history in a number of national schools. Breathnach was also president of Conradh na Gaeilge from 1926 until 1928. His teaching influenced some of his pupils that later figured prominently in the Irish War of Independence, including Dan Breen, Seán Treacy, Seán Hogan and Dinny Lacey. In his autobiography Breen noted: "He did not confine his h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiachra Breathnach
Fiachra Breathnach (born 21 November 1986) is an Irish Gaelic footballer from Galway. Breathnach played his club football with Naomh Anna, Leitir Móir before transferring to St Vincents, and is a former county footballer for the Galway senior football panel. Underage achievements Breathnach first represented his County at u14 level. He represented Galway City and West at u16 level in the Ted Webb competition in 2001 and again in 2002. He was a member of the Galway minor panels which won the Connaught championships in 2003 and 2004. Galway were beaten in the All Ireland Minor Football Championship Quarter Final in 2004 by Down by a single point, 0-15 to 1-11. Breathnach contributed 1-1 from midfield. Breathnach attended St Jarlath's College, Tuam and was a member of the 2003 team that contested the Hogan Cup Final. Breathnach captained the St. Jarlaths College, Tuam Senior Football Team in 2004. He was chosen to represent Ireland as part of the International rules schoolboy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breandán Breathnach
Breandán Breathnach (1 April 1912 – 6 November 1985) was an Irish music collector and uilleann piper. In addition to collecting Irish music, he is known for his ''Ceol Rince na hÉireann'' (Dance Music of Ireland) series. Life Breathnach grew up in the Liberties of Dublin, where his father was a silk weaver. His uncle Joe was a player of the uilleann pipes and a member of the Piper's Club. He started learning the pipes from John Potts of Wexford and William Andrews, then with the renowned piper Leo Rowsome. Breathnach started work as a civil servant with the Department of Agriculture, but in 1965 switched to the Department of Education where he was responsible for collecting music from around Ireland. In the 1950s he decided to publish some of his music collection. Tunes were contributed by pipers such as his uncle Joe, John Potts, Tommy Reck, Matt Kiernan and Willie Clancy, fiddlers such as John Kelly, Donncha Ó Cróinín, Tommy Potts and Tom Mulligan, flutists and whist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mícheál Breathnach
Mícheál Breathnach (1881 – 27 October 1908) was an Irish writer. Breathnach was born at Cois Fharraige, County Galway, and worked for some time as a Secretary of the London Branch of the Gaelic League. He later worked as headmaster of the Connaught College in Toormakeady, County Mayo. He spent time in Switzerland for the sake of improving his health, his accounts of the country been published in ''An Claidheamh Soluis'', and later published as ''Seilig i measg na nAlp''. He translated Charles Kickham's novel, ''Knocknagow'' into Irish. His name is commemorated in the name of Inverin based G.A.A. club, Míchael Breathnach CLG. Bibliography * ''Stair na hÉireann'', Dublin, Conradh na Gaeilge, 1910–11 * ''Sliocht de sgribhinuibh Mhicil Bhreathnaigh, maille le na Bheathaibh'', Tomás Mac Dómhnaill do sgriobh, 1913 * ''Seilig i measg na nAlp'' Dublin, 1917 * ''Cnoch na nGabha'' Dublin, 1924 See also * Breathnach Breathnach or Bhreathnach (meaning ''Welshman'') is an Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maire Breathnach
Marie Bheag Breathnach is an Irish people, Irish actress. Breathnach played the part of Mo Gilmartin on the Irish language drama, ''Ros na Rún'', from 2002 to 2021. She is a native of Cnoc Leitirmullen, in Galway, and won the County football final with her local team. She has been an actress since working on a short film by Paul Mercier in 1998. She is now working as a floor manager in ros na Rún since 2021. She recently worked as a stage manager with An Taibhdhearc with their new play Baile Beag Mór. See also * Breathnach External links Interview: 8 Questions with ... Marie Bheag Breathnach {{DEFAULTSORT:Breathnach, Maire Actresses from County Galway Irish soap opera actresses Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gearóidín Bhreathnach
Gearóidín Breathnach () is an Irish singer that originally grew up in Rannafast, in the Rosses, County Donegal; she now lives in Ardveen, also in the Rosses. ''The Irish Times.'' 19 October 2009. As a sean-nós singer, she has been a double winner of the Corn Uí Riada competition in . Gearóidín is also a . Her father Neddie Frank Mac Griana was also a seanchaí, and was a source of her inspira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsh (surname)
Walsh is a common Irish surname, meaning "Briton" or "foreigner", literally "Welshman" or "Wales", taken to Ireland by soldiers from Britain, namely Cambro-Norman/Welsh, Cornish and Cumbrian soldiers during and after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It is most common in County Mayo and County Kilkenny. It is the fourth most common surname in Ireland, and the 265th most common in the United States. There are variants including "Walshe", “ Welch”, "Welsh", "Brannagh", and the Irish "Breathnach". Walsh is uncommon as a given name. The name is often pronounced "Welsh" in the south and west of the country. In Great Britain, Guppy encountered the name only in Lancashire. It is the surname of the Barons Ormathwaite. Origins in Ireland There are several Walsh families in Ireland who have recognized coats of arms. These are the Walshs of Ballykilcaven in County Laois whose motto is "Firm" and their crest is a griffin's head. The Walshs of Castlehale in County Kilkenny have a crest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máire Breatnach
Máire Breatnach is an Irish fiddle, violin and viola player. She also sings in Irish on some of her albums. Since the early 1990s, she has recorded five solo albums, participated in many collaborations, and developed didactic material for children, mostly in Irish. Early life Born in Dublin, Máire Breatnach obtained a B.A., B.Mus. and M.A. degrees at UCD, in Dublin where she lectured, as she also did in the College of Music, DIT before starting a freelance career as a performing musician. She later obtained a further M.A., in Ethnomusicology, from the University of Limerick, and a Ph.D. from Dublin City University in 2013. Music career Breatnach is best known for her fiddle playing, and has been a prolific solo player as well as participating in a number of traditional and neo-traditional groups. She sings in Irish on some of her albums, and her composition ''Éist'' was an award-winning single. She has worked with the bands of Sharon Shannon, Moya Brennan (of Clannad), and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucilita Bhreatnach
Lucilita Bhreatnach is an Irish republican politician and member of Sinn Féin. Political career Growing up in Dublin, Bhreatnach joined Sinn Féin at the age of sixteen. She was chair and secretary of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann local group ''Dúchas''. As a teenager she co-organised Irish language youth groups ''Ógras'' where she grew up and taught Irish and was a member of Conradh na Gaeilge (Gaelic League) the Women's Section of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. She was subsequently active in the Anti H-Block campaign, becoming the Chair of the National Stop the Strip-Searching Campaign. She is the daughter of the journalist, the late Deasún Breatnach and Lucy Bhreatnach member of Amnesty International and Irish Council of Civil Liberties. She worked for the Sinn Féin newspaper An Phoblacht in 1982, then on the International Department in the party's Foreign Affairs Bureau. In a part-time job she co organised a Unio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edel Bhreathnach
Edel Bhreathnach is an Irish historian and academic and former CEO of the Discovery Programme. Bhreathnach was a Tara Research Fellow for the Discovery Programme from 1992 to 2000. In 2005 she was appointed Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute for the study of Irish History and Civilization, at University College Dublin. In 2013, she left her role in the Ó Cléirigh Institute to rejoin the Discovery Programme as CEO. Her particular areas of interest concern the history of Tara in County Meath, dynastic politics in the kingdoms of Mide and Leinster.She is currently part of the Monastic Ireland network and is working on a study of monasticism in Ireland AD900-1250. See also * Breathnach Bibliography The following is a provisional list of Bhreathnach's publications. Articles * ''Killeskin: An Irish Monastery Surveyed'' in ''Cambridge/Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies'', pp. 33–47. 1994. * ''Tara: A Select Bibliography,'' in ''Discovery Programme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brannick (surname)
Brannick is the anglicized form of the Irish surname Breathnach Breathnach or Bhreathnach (meaning ''Welshman'') is an Irish surname, indicating an ancestor who was Welsh. It is the Irish-language version of surnames such as Brannagh, Brunnock, Brannick, Walsh, Wallace, and Wallis. However, it does not nec .... Notable people with the surname include: * James Brannick (1889–1917), English footballer * John Brannick (1830–1895), Irish whiskey distiller * Sister Maura Brannick, founder of Sister Maura Brannick Health Center {{surname, Brannick English-language surnames Anglicised Irish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
