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Aoife (/ ˈ iː f ə / EE-fə, Irish:) is an Irish and Gaelic feminine given name. The name is probably derived from the Irish Gaelic aoibh , which means "beauty" or "radiance". [ 1 ] It has been compared to the Gaulish name Esvios (Latinized Esuvius , feminine Esuvia ), which may be related to the tribal name Esuvii and the theonym Esus .
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. Some Irish-language names ...
That apostrophe you see on the O of Irish surnames is an Anglicization of a “síneadh fada,” an acute accent slanting to the right. A fada above a vowel means the vowel should be pronounced ...
Aoife Ní Fhearraigh (Irish pronunciation: [ˈiːfʲə n̠ʲiː ˈaɾˠiː]), or simply Aoife, is an Irish singer. A well-known interpreter of Irish language songs, she released her first recording in 1991 and worked with Moya Brennan to produce her much acclaimed 1996 album Aoife . [ 1 ]
Throughout history, parents in the United States have turned to Irish names for babies, often trying to "Irish-ize" a name by altering its spelling. One example of that is seen in spelling of the ...
Aoife Ní Bhriain was born into a musical family in Bayside, a suburb of North Dublin, Ireland. [1] [6] Her father, Mick O'Brien, is an uilleann piper and schoolteacher from a well-known traditional Irish music family in Artane, Dublin. [6]
The name is unrelated to the Biblical name Eva, which was rendered as Éabha in Irish, but due to the similarity in sound, Aife has often been incorrectly anglicised as Eva or Eve. Aoife MacMurrough (also known as Eva of Leinster ) was a 12th-century Irish noblewoman.
Aoife O'Donovan (/ ˈ iː f ə / EE-fə, Irish:; born November 18, 1982) [1] is an American singer and Grammy award-winning songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer for the string band Crooked Still [ 2 ] and she also co-founded the Grammy Award-winning female folk trio I'm with Her .