XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: peter@pmoylan.org   
      
   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.   
      
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