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Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang Subject: Re: Possible accidental sighting of a newsgroup participant's name Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 19:46:45 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <v5r9i9$f9do$1@dont-email.me> References: <name-20240625213903@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <v5fi1t$1p030$1@dont-email.me> <v5r301$dskv$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 11:46:50 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8d608dd28cd385124690ee588acb018b"; logging-data="501176"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Ay+WJIdtdAD68gVpwTdyd" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:BCbVsm1lMpdZge9gw/l8cJAz1qI= In-Reply-To: <v5r301$dskv$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 1983 On 30/06/24 17:54, HenHanna wrote: > On 6/25/2024 3:58 PM, Peter Moylan wrote: >> That reminds me. An AUE regular once asked me whether I was related >> to the linguist Séamus Ó Maoláin. I contacted him, and indeed he >> was from the same small region that my people came from. So there's >> probably a connection, but we could find the missing links. He died >> three years ago, so we likely never will. > Moylan is Irish? Yes. More precisely, it's the anglicisation of an Irish name. The change happened quite a few generations ago, so there's no point in trying to change it back. It comes from Irish maol=bald, so I'm probably descended from someone who wore a tonsure. My maternal line is Callaghan, also a traditional Irish name. I do, however, also have some Scottish heritage. -- Peadar Séamus Ó Maoláin