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Fionn Mac Gormáin
Fionn (, ) is a masculine given name in Irish and Scottish Gaelic. In English, it is pronounced "Finn" ( ) or "Fyun". It is derived from a byname meaning "white" or "fair-haired". It is the original version of a name later anglicized as Find and Finn. People Notable people with the name include: * Fionn Carr (born 1985), Irish rugby union player * Fionn Dunne, materials scientist * Fionn Ferreira, Irish inventor and chemist * Fionn Fitzgerald (born 1990), Irish football player * Fionn Gibbons, Irish rugby player * Fionn Griffiths, British mountain bicyclist * Fionn Hand, Irish cricketer * Fionn Herlihy, Irish Gaelic footballer * Fionn MacColla (1906–1975), Scottish novelist * Fionn mac Cumhaill, figure from Irish mythology * Fionn McLaughlin (born 2007), Irish kart driver * Fionn McLoughlin (born 1982), Irish rugby union player * Fionn O'Shea (born 1997), Irish actor * Fionn Petch, Scottish translator * Fionn Regan (born 1981), Irish folk musician * Fionn Whitehead (born 1997), ...
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Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic (, ; Endonym and exonym, endonym: ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a member of the Goidelic language, Goidelic branch of Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, alongside both Irish language, Irish and Manx language, Manx, developed out of Old Irish. It became a distinct spoken language sometime in the 13th century in the Middle Irish period, although a Classical Gaelic, common literary language was shared by the Gaels of both Ireland and Scotland until well into the 17th century. Most of modern Scotland was once Gaelic-speaking, as evidenced especially by Gaelic-language place names. In the 2011 United Kingdom census#2011 Census for Scotland, 2011 census of Scotland, 57,375 people (1.1% of the Scottish population, three years and older) reported being able to speak Gaelic, 1,275 fewer than in 2001. The highest percentages of Gaelic speakers were in the Outer Hebrides. Nevertheless, there is a language ...
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Fionn Regan
Fionn Regan (born 1981) is an Irish folk musician and singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Bray, Regan came to prominence with the release of his debut studio album, '' The End of History'' in 2006. He had been releasing extended plays for six years on independent record labels prior to the album's release. Regan's second studio album, '' The Shadow of an Empire'' was released in 2010 to positive reviews and his third studio album, '' 100 Acres of Sycamore'', was released in 2011. His fourth studio album, '' The Bunkhouse Vol. 1: Anchor Black Tattoo'', was released in 2012. Among the accolades Regan has received nominations for the Choice Music Prize in Ireland, the Mercury Prize in the United Kingdom and the Shortlist Music Prize in the United States. Regan has cited Bob Dylan and Neil Young as influences on his music and has been referred to by Lucinda Williams as "his generation's answer to Bob Dylan". Career Regan's early releases included the single " Little Miss Dr ...
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Irish-language Masculine 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 bas ...
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List Of Scottish Gaelic Given Names
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ...
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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 ...
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Fenian Cycle
The Fenian Cycle (), Fianna Cycle or Finn Cycle () is a body of early Irish literature focusing on the exploits of the mythical hero Fionn mac Cumhaill, Finn or Fionn mac Cumhaill and his Kóryos, warrior band the Fianna. Sometimes called the Ossianic Cycle after its narrator Oisín, it is one of the four groupings of Irish mythology along with the Mythological Cycle, the Ulster Cycle, and the Cycles of the Kings, Kings' Cycles. Timewise, the Fenian cycle is the third, between the Ulster and Kings' cycles. The cycle also contains stories about other famous Fianna members, including Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, Diarmuid, Caílte mac Rónáin, Caílte, Oisín's son Oscar (Irish mythology), Oscar, and Fionn's rival Goll mac Morna. List of works In the introduction to his ''Fianaigecht'', Kuno Meyer listed the relevant poems and prose texts between the seventh and fourteenth centuriesKuno Meyer. ''Fianaigecht''. xi–xxxi and further examples can be adduced for later ages: ;Seventh centu ...
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The Boyhood Deeds Of Fionn
''The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn'' () is a medieval Irish narrative belonging to the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. As its title implies, it recounts the boyhood exploits of Fionn mac Cumhaill, the cycle's central figure. Origin and development The most important manuscript is Laud 610: folio 118Rb-121Va, which is missing the ending; Kuno Meyer and Gerard Murphy assigned the text to the 12th century. The Laud 610 manuscript text was edited and translated by John O'Donovan as "The Boyish Exploits of Finn mac Cumhaill" in 1859, but only partly with some deficiencies according to Kuno Meyer. Meyer published an 1881 edition followed by a 1904 translation entitled "The Boyish Exploits of Finn". A more recent translation appeared in Joseph Falaky Nagy, ''The Wisdom of the Outlaw: Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition'' (1985). The text breaks off while Fionn investigates a '' sídhe'' or fairy mound, before his trip to Tara. Scholars have pointed out similarities betwe ...
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Fionn (band)
Fionn is a Canadian band based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The band consists of identical twin sisters Alanna and Brianne Finn-Morris. History Identical twins Alanna and Brianne Finn-Morris grew up in White Rock, British Columbia White Rock is a city in British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Metro Vancouver Regional District. It is bordered by Semiahmoo Bay to the south and is surrounded on three sides by Surrey, British Columbia, Surrey. To the south .... Their father was a musician originally who emigrated from Ireland to Canada and played in an Irish show band; their mother owned a music school in White Rock. They began performing together at the age of 12 as buskers in their hometown. They originally sang as "Alanna & Brianne", but changed their name to Fionn as an Irish influence on the first part of their shared surname. The sisters stated in 2017 that they were agnostic as to whether the band's name was pronounced “FEE-on” or “fee-UN”. Th ...
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Torphins
Torphins ( ; ) is a village in River Dee, Aberdeenshire, Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland which lies about west of Aberdeen. It is situated on the A980 road, A980, about north-west of Banchory, and was once served by the Great North of Scotland Railway. With a population of around 1,400, it is one of the larger villages in Deeside. Toponymy The name ''Torphins'' may come from the Gaelic ''Torr Fionn'', meaning fair/white hill, or as a corruption of ''Tor Feithachan'', meaning hill of the bogs. Another less likely namesake is Thorfinn the Mighty, Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Earl of Orkney, who might have passed through the area due to his partnership with Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macbeth. It appeared on maps in 1750 under the name ''Turfins''. Amenities The village has many facilities including a primary school (with about 250 pupils attending each year), a large park with play area, a car dealer, a hairdressers, two tennis courts, a bowling green and a doctor's surgery. T ...
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Fionn Loch (Suilven)
Fionn Loch is a small irregular-shaped shallow freshwater loch, on a north-west to south-east orientation that is located 3 miles southeast of Lochinver in the Assynt district of Sutherland in Scotland. The loch is located in an area known as the ''Assynt-Coigach National Scenic Area'', one of 40 such areas in Scotland. Geography Fionn Loch is part of the Fionn Loch drainage system and is fed with water from River Ledbeg which drains Loch Urigill, due south-by-south east and Loch Borralan, to the east of Urigill. Loch Veyatie directly south, drains through Uidh Fheàrna, a slow-moving channel into Fionn Loch. The drainage system was once a large lake, Loch Suilven that is now made up of Cam Loch Cam Loch (the Crooked Loch) is one of a number of water supply sources for the Crinan Canal. The impounding reservoir lies to the south of the canal and about 3 kilometres west of Lochgilphead. It has an earthwork dam 8.5 metres high, with record ..., Veyatie and Fionn Loch. A vast ...
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Fionn Bheinn
Fionn Bheinn is a mountain located south of Loch Fannich in the northwestern Scottish Highlands. It has a height of 933 m (3061 ft) and is listed as a Munro. The south side of the mountain is a shallow, smooth grassy slope, but its north face is steeper and is considered more impressive.The Munros (SMC Guide), Donald Bennett et al, Fionn Bheinn is most often climbed from the village of Achnasheen to the south, with the normal route following the burn A burn is an injury to skin, or other tissues, caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, friction, or ionizing radiation (such as sunburn, caused by ultraviolet radiation). Most burns are due to heat from hot fluids (called scalding), soli ... called Allt Achadh na Sine to the nose at Creagan nan Laogh, and then up the grassy slopes to the summit. An ascent or descent via the east ridge is also common, this route giving better views of the north side of the mountain. References Munros Marilyns of Sco ...
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Eas Fionn
Eas Fionn is a waterfall of Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ....Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale Explorer map series, sheets 309-470 See also * Waterfalls of Scotland References Waterfalls of Scotland {{Scotland-geo-stub ...
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