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Aoibheann
Aoibheann (; ), Aoibhinn (), or Aoibhín () are Irish language feminine given names. Notable people Aíbinn * Aíbinn ingen Donnchadha, died 950. * Aíbinn ingen Duinn Oilen, died 1014. * Aíbinn Ní Conchobhair, died 1066. Aoibheann * Aoibheann Clancy * Aoibheann Reilly * Aoibheann Sweeney Aoibhín * Aoibhín Garrihy Aoibhinn * Aoibhinn Grimes * Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin See also *List of Irish-language given names This list of Irish-language given names shows Irish language given names, their Anglicisation (linguistics), anglicisations and/or English language equivalents. Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an angl ... References External links Aibinn at medievalscotland.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Aibinn Irish-language feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aoibheann Clancy
Aoibheann Clancy (born 31 October 2003) is an Irish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Shelbourne in the Women's National League (WNL) and the Republic of Ireland women's national team. Club career Clancy is from Kilbehenny in County Limerick. At youth level, she played ladies' Gaelic football for Galtee Gaels, and Camogie for St. Fanahan's. In youth soccer, she was active in the Tipperary Schoolboys/girls Southern & District League (TSSDL) for both Kilburn Celtic and Tipperary Town, before she joined the youth system of local Women's National League club Limerick WFC. Wexford Youths Ahead of the delayed 2020 Women's National League season, Clancy joined Wexford Youths. In September 2020 she made her first start for her new club as Wexford inflicted a first defeat of the season on champions Peamount United. Impressed Wexford coach Tom Elmes declared Clancy "one of the stand-out performances". Clancy's strong form continued into the 2021 Women's National League sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aoibheann Reilly
Aoibheann Reilly (born 1 November 2000) is an Irish rugby union player. She represents Ireland at 15-a-side and Sevens rugby as a scrum-half. Early life Reilly began playing rugby for the Ballinasloe U12 Community Games team. She has been a long time teammate and friend of Beibhinn Parsons having attended primary and secondary school together before going on to play rugby for Ireland together. Her brother Colm Reilly is a scrum-half for Connacht Rugby. Her father Stephen Reilly is a former principal of Garbally College. Career Reilly played domestically for Connacht before impressing for Blackrock College RFC in the All Ireland League. She was named in the starting XV for Ireland for the first time in March 2022 in the Women's Six Nations Championship test match against Wales. She was named as part of the Ireland sevens team for the Rugby Sevens World Cup held in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2022. Reilly suffered her first serious knee injury to her cruciate liga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aoibheann Sweeney
Aoibheann Sweeney (born 1969) is an American author. Biography She was raised in Massachusetts and attended Harvard University and the University of Virginia's MFA Program, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. Her first novel, '' Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking'', is about a girl who grows up alone with her father on an island in Maine and is sent to stay in New York City with friends of her father, who open up her past, and her own world, in ways she could not have begun to imagine. It was published by Penguin Press in 2007 and was an Editor’s Choice at the ''New York Times Book Review''. It also won a Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian Debut Fiction category at the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards. In a lengthy review in ''The Washington Post'', Ron Charles wrote about the way the book “taps into older, sometimes ancient stories...There’s real wisdom in these classic myths and there’s real talent in this sensitive novel.” Sweeney has written for the ''New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Irish-language Given Names
This list of Irish-language given names shows Irish language given names, their Anglicisation (linguistics), anglicisations and/or English language equivalents. Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an anglicised form. Some Irish names have false cognates, i.e. names that look similar but are not etymologically related, e.g. is commonly accepted as the Irish equivalent of the etymologically unrelated names Anna (name), Anna and Anne. During the "Celtic Revival, 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 "freedom" and "vision, dream". Some English-language names are anglicisations of Irish names, e.g. Kathleen (given name), Kathleen from and Shaun from . Some Irish-language names derive from English names, e.g. from Edmund. Some Irish-language names have English equivalents, both deriving from a common source, e.g. Irish (anglicised ''Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous language, indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the majority of the population's first language until the 19th century, when English (language), English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century, in what is sometimes characterised as a result of linguistic imperialism. Today, Irish is still commonly spoken as a first language in Ireland's Gaeltacht regions, in which 2% of Ireland's population lived in 2022. The total number of people (aged 3 and over) in Ireland who declared they could speak Irish in April 2022 was 1,873,997, representing 40% of respondents, but of these, 472,887 said they never spoke it and a further 551,993 said they only spoke it within the education system. Linguistic analyses o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aoibhín Garrihy
Aoibhín Garrihy, Ailbhe Garrihy and Doireann Garrihy are Irish social media influencers, having played different roles in the entertainment industry. Aoibhín is an actress, having played Neasa Dillon in RTÉ One's '' Fair City'' from 2010 to 2013. She was a finalist in the first series of the Irish version of ''Dancing with the Stars''. Ailbhe is a publicist. Doireann is a comedy impressionist, known for two series of ''The Doireann Project'', and radio and television presenter, hosting the revival in 2018 of RTÉ Two's '' The Podge and Rodge Show''. Early life The Garrihys came from Castleknock, County Dublin, the daughters of Eugene and Clare. Eugene is now an entrepreneur, the director of ferry companies Dublin Bay Cruises and Doolin2Aran. Aoibhín Aoibhín (born 20 June 1987) has acting credits including '' Fair City'', '' Love/Hate'', and '' Mattie''. In 2017, Garrihy was a contestant in the first series of RTÉ's ''Dancing with the Stars''. On 26 March 2017, she re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aoibhinn Grimes
Aoibhinn Grimes (born August 30, 1976, in Kelowna, British Columbia) is a former field hockey forward from Canada, who earned a total number of hundred international caps for the Canadian Women's National Team during her career. On national level she played for University of Victoria Vikes. Grimes earned a degree in kinesiology from the University of Victoria. International senior tournaments * 1997 – World Cup Qualifier, Harare, Zimbabwe (11th) * 1998 – Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (not ranked) * 1999 – Pan American Games, Winnipeg, Canada (3rd) * 2001 – Pan American Cup, Kingston, Jamaica (3rd) * 2001 – World Cup Qualifier, Amiens/Abbeville, France (10th) * 2002 – Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (; born 25 October 1983) is an Irish academic, teacher, broadcaster and high-profile science communicator. She also won the Rose of Tralee contest in 2005 and toured internationally as the lead singer of an Irish traditional music band. In 2022, she was appointed to chair a national forum on biodiversity loss, presenting its report to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in April 2023, and presenting on the topic to a committee of the UN General Assembly later that month. Early life and education Ní Shúilleabháin is a native of the village of Carnacon near Ballyglass, County Mayo. Her parents were teachers, her father, Art, from County Galway, being the principal of Carnacon National School, and her mother, Maire, vice-principal of a Gaelscoil in Castlebar. She was the eldest of a family of six, with five brothers. She has credited her success and interest in some aspects of maths and science to a good teacher of maths in primary school, and to a secondary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish-language Feminine Given Names
Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the majority of the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century, in what is sometimes characterised as a result of linguistic imperialism. Today, Irish is still commonly spoken as a first language in Ireland's Gaeltacht regions, in which 2% of Ireland's population lived in 2022. The total number of people (aged 3 and over) in Ireland who declared they could speak Irish in April 2022 was 1,873,997, representing 40% of respondents, but of these, 472,887 said they never spoke it and a further 551,993 said they only spoke it within the education system. Linguistic analyses of Irish speakers are therefore based pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
