Need Irish Last Names

I need Irish last names for a story I'm writing about. I already have a few:

O'Brien, McGovern, O'Reilly, Mitchell, Kennedy, Moran.

What are some others?

McGuinness, Molloy, McCrea?

You could get away with using English, Welsh and Scottish surnames as well though, we do occasionally inter-marry ;-)

Big old list: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/ihm/irenames.htm

O'Dwyer.

Scanlon.

Murphy/Murray. Extra Irish: add a "Mac" in front of them.

Had a super Irish calculus prof in university who was O'Connor.

O'anything

Potato

Flynn

Mac is Scottish, Mc is Irish.

These aren't bad shouts, although nowadays I would think Murray and Mac names are more traditionally assumed to be of Scottish origin, even though they could infer either a Scottish or Irish heritage.

Although I am biased in that sense because those names are very prominent in my (Scottish) family. And y'know, Andy Murray and all that.

O'Hagan

O'Brady... Beef O'Brady.

Sorry, I have no serious answers that haven't already been said.

Flannigan!

Boyce and McGrath

The first is my maiden name. The second was my grandmother's maiden name. Both of Irish origin.

Flynn!

@dr_nefarious: Herrick

Kelly, Cullinan, Mulvany, Fagan. I went to Catholic school so I should be able to come up with a lot more than that but that's what I've got.

Being born and raised in Ireland I'm just going to give you a bunch of surnames of people I went to school with. That way you can avoid the stereotypical MacThis and O'Everything (which really aren't as common as a lot of american media would have you believe).

DevlinBoyd
Brownlee
Benson
Sands
Mitchell
Stewart
Hopper
Campbell
Bell
Glendinning
Lewis
Strain
Dowell
Carley
And what the hell. The one Mc I knew in 18 years - McGuckin

O'Flurnigan?

Finnigan

Does the assumption that the O is pretty widespread irk the Irish, or do you guys just shrug and not care? If the latter, then I can't help but suggest "O'Glendinning."

@believer258 It's not that it annoys me exactly... but if I was reading a story that was set in Ireland in a town full of people with O' and Mac names it would just come across as ridiculous and kind of ruin the experience for me.

If it's just for one character in a story set elsewhere then go nuts. May I recommend the most irish name ever - Seamus Fitzpatrick.

@believer258: Don't mind it so much. What I do mind is the likes of @babychoochoo chiming in with "potato" and thinking it's hilarious, when in fact it's like saying "holocaust" to a Jewish person.....and thinking it's hilarious.

Anyway, my surname is Cullen and I'm Irish. I can suggest, Mahony, Byrne, McElroy, Collins, Kelly, O'Connell, Farrell, Murray, Duff, Buckley....all surnames of Irish people I know. But you can also be Irish and not have an Irish sounding name. Just putting that out there. ;)

I'm partial to McMayhan, Gaughan, Finnerty, Garretty, Reynor and McCheese... like the mayor. That last ones a joke. Your welcome.

Driscoll, Connolly, Leary, Darmody, Thompson, Shay or Shea. And so on.

How about the miracle that is google? There's some expansive results on the subject.

I'm Irish. Called McCullough.

Ronan

Paddy O'Furniture

Donnelly

McDyer

phil Mccrackin. seriously O'hair!.

@grantheaslip: That's the thing about name origins. Of the names I mentioned, Boyce could be of Scottish, English, or Northern Irish origins according to online sources. There are also discussions that it is the anglicized form of the Gaelic name Ó Buadhaigh, which sounds way cooler.

I was told by both my parents that my full name is "very Irish" and that most of my father's side of the family, and some of my mother's is from Ireland. I even had a great great aunt that was turned away from entry into the United States because on her forms she said that she was going to be a maid, but she was missing three fingers on one of her hands from an accident that she had as a baby. A pig had walked into the home through an open door and bitten them off as she lay in her crib, so they considered her unfit for the job and rejected the application. Or so I was told by my father. :)

Wouldn't that just be the name of any alcohol base drink ever?

McLaughlin (Mick-Lock-Lin)

Byrne (burn) is pretty Irish too...

Doherty is an awesome Irish surname. Oh and it's pronounced Dock-erty by the Irish.

Scully. Its an awesome name cause its mine. Yes you can borrow it.

Yeah it is a horrible story, unfortunately. I know that she went back and had a good life, and I still have family there to this day that I haven't had the chance to meet, a lot of cousins mostly, that kind of thing. My hope is that the story got worse with age and that it was embellished over time, but she did have to go back due to the disability, so I guess it's a faint hope really. It's interesting to think that for all the people that made it into the United States, there were still people turned away for such small issues.

@jimbo: That's my nickname at work, minutes into my first day when someone found out my name was Pat O'Day they came up with that gem and it's stuck with me. It's since been shortened to Paddy O, at least.

@onefreeman: No it's not. It's pronounced like that by UK folk. They also pronounce it Dough-arty, which is also incorrect.

@feckhead: Odd because I've worked with two Irish Dohertys in my life and they both pronounced it like I said. Maybe it's a Northern / Southern thing?

@onefreeman: Possibly. But I've never come across it. Then again, I've spent the majority of my life in Dublin and only a fraction in Belfast and Derry.

Ó Coileáin was my family name before they moved to mainland and changed it to Collins. Or that could just be my dad lying to me.

I'm from Ireland. I can help with pronunciation if you need.

Malone

Tierney

Guinnane

McMahon

O'Mahony

Walsh

O'Sullivan

McNamara

Kelly

Kinneally

McKeown

O'Donnell

McLoughlan

Casey

Guilfoyle

Loughnane

O'Gara

Doyle

McDonnell

Keane

O'Brien

Flemming

O'Grady

Fitzgerald

Hickey

Cahill

Ryan

O'Shea

Murphy

O'Dea

O'Keefe

Maher

O'Looney

Cook

Doherty

Haugh

Meehan

Donnelly

Shaw

O'Neill

Hennessy

Barry

Joyce

Grant

McCormack

Lynch

Collins, Campbell, Clarke, Johnston, Hughes, O'Farrell, Fitzgerald, Brown, Martin, Maguire, Nolan, Flynn, Thompson, O'Callaghan, O'Donnell, Duffy, O'Mahony, Boyle, Healy, O'Shea, White, Sweeney, Hayes, Kavanagh, Power, McGrath, Moran, Brady, Stewart, Casey, Foley, Fitzpatrick, O'Leary, McDonnell, Donnelly, Regan, Donovan, Burns, Flanagan, Mullan, Barry, Cunningham, Griffin, Kenny, Sheehan, Lyons, Reid, Graham, Quinn, Kelly, Kelley, Higgin, Cullen, Keane, King, Maher, McKenna, Bell, Scott, Hogan, O'Keeffe, Magee, Molony, Buckley, and... OF COURSE O'Dwyer

First names are easier - [deep breath] Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, Brian...and Willy.

I laughed.

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