The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland features Irish and immigrant surnames in its collection. An online database of Irish surnames provides detailed explanations and ...

Genealogist Barry Griffin has compiled a robust online resource for Irish surnames using data from the 1901 and 1911 censuses in Ireland. Irish surname maps were created using the 1901/1911 Irish ...

Genealogical riches from every county of Ireland feature among new historical records which are now available online.

Now the meaning behind 45,000 of the UK and Ireland’s most common surnames has been catalogued and included in a comprehensive dictionary following a four-year study.. The University of the West ...

The tradition of Irish pubs including surnames can be traced back to, well, Ireland. An 1872 law required all pubs to display the owner’s name above the door, said Elizabeth Stack, the executive ...

There is no such thing as a Viking surname. True hereditary surnames were only introduced in Scandinavia in the late 18th century, more than 700 years after the heyday of Viking expansion.

Irish Gaelic surnames were actually forbidden by Reachtanna Chill Chainnigh - the Statutes of Kilkenny in English-controlled areas as early as 1367 and eventually in the end an leagan Béarla ...

Whether American or British, the language Irish surnames have swum in for almost two centuries is English. Seen in this light, the 20th-century Gaelicisation of surnames, ...