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dar512

09-25-2008 09:24 AM

Barack is Irish?

I think I'm on to something.

O'Reilly, O'Shea, O'Bama?

xoxoxoBruce

09-25-2008 09:32 AM

O'Furniture.

Shawnee123

09-25-2008 09:39 AM

So, in the old days it meant: Of the Bamas?

HungLikeJesus

09-25-2008 10:25 AM

Short for Bahamas.

classicman

09-25-2008 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 486834)

O'Furniture.

O'Bruce

Trilby

09-25-2008 02:18 PM

He's Black Irish.

:stpaddy:

ZenGum

09-26-2008 09:19 PM

Quote:

"We'll give land to the Chinks and the Niggers .... but we don't want the IRISH"

TheMercenary

09-29-2008 06:24 PM

Grandson of Bama

It is hardly necessary to state that these prefixes denote descent, mac (son) indicating that the surname was formed from the personal names, or sometimes calling, of the father of the first man to bear that surname, while O names are derived from a grandfather or even earlier ancestor, o or ua being the Irish word for grandson, or more loosely male descendant.

http://www.heraldry.ws/info/article07.html

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