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    Book of Baby Names: Baby Names from Ireland
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    Book of Baby Names: Baby Names from Ireland

    By Peg Coughlan

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    Irish Names for Girls and Boys. Popular and Unique Irish Names with their Gaelic meaning and origins. The definitive collection of Popular and Unique Irish Baby Names. This book provides a list of Irish names for boys and girls taken from the great store of more than 2,000 years of Christian and pre-Christian Ireland. Explanations are provided for the Gaelic names and biographies are included for saints' names. The author outlines interesting facts about the popularity, regional preferences and alternative forms of the names included in this collection.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMercier Press
    Release dateJan 1, 1998
    ISBN9781781170861
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    Book of Baby Names: Baby Names from Ireland
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    Peg Coughlan

    Peg Coghlan is a pseudonym for an Irish writer, critic and historian.

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