Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish names can seem like a daunting ambush of rogue consonants and surprise vowels. That’s because ...

(CNN) — Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish names can seem like a daunting ambush of gibberish. That’s because while the Irish ...

Sean is the most mispronounced name in the world, and the most mispronounced Irish name in the world, according to a new study. It's not unusual to run into a name you're not sure how to pronounce, ...

Analysis of Google search data for 2025 revealed the most mispronounced words—and some popular Irish names made the list ...

The Merriam-Webster account on X, known for snappier and snarkier posts than are usually associated with dictionary publishers, recently managed to provoke some ire from the Irish by answering its own ...

The same announcer called a horse named Lisheen (after a townland in Tipperary) Lie-sheen -- it’s actually Lish-heen. There are lots of place names Americans have problems pronouncing properly. Now I ...

A Reddit post sparked a heated discussion after a stranger corrected an American mother's pronunciation of her daughter's Irish name. The post, written by Redditor u/punkfence, has gone viral to the ...

Story and audio by Maureen O’Hare, illustrations by Leah Abucayan, CNN (CNN) — Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish names can seem ...