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Síd(h) (modern spelling sí) is Irish for 'mound' (see Sidhe). In traditional Irish mythology, a spirit usually taking the form of a woman who sings a caoineadh (lament) warning of impending death in an old Irish family. bog (from "boc", meaning "soft" or "marshy" [3] and -aigh to form bogach meaning "soft soil composed primarily of peat" [4])
carrow – An ancient Irish gambler, from cearrbhach. caubeen – An Irish beret, adopted as part of the uniform of Irish regiments of the British Army. From cáibín. clabber – also bonny-clabber (from clábar and bainne clábair) curdled milk. clarsach – An ancient Irish and Scottish harp, from Irish cláirseach. clock – O.Ir. clocc ...
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During the "Irish revival", some Irish names which had fallen out of use were revived. Some names are recent creations, such as the now-common female names Saoirse "freedom" and Aisling "vision, dream". Some English-language names are anglicisations of Irish names, e.g. Kathleen from Caitlín and Shaun from Seán.
The Irish king Brian Boru who ended the domination of the so-called High Kingship of Ireland by the Uí Néill, is part of the historical cycle. The Irish princess Iseult is the adulterous lover of Tristan in the Arthurian romance and tragedy Tristan and Iseult.
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The Insular Celtic verb shows a peculiar feature unknown in any other attested Indo-European language: verbs have different conjugational forms depending on whether they appear in absolute initial position in the sentence (Insular Celtic having verb–subject–object or VSO word order) or whether they are preceded by a preverbal particle.
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