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| O'Baby: The Irish Baby Name Book | 
 enlarge | Author: Geoffrey Johnson
Publisher: Berkley Books
Category: Book
List Price: $6.99 (€5.52)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (17 reviews)
Sales Rank: 98082
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 166
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0425168182
Dewey Decimal Number: 649
EAN: 9780425168189
ASIN: 0425168182
Publication Date: April 1, 1999
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Product Description
Ireland is famous for its beauty, its magic--and its lyrical names. This one-of-a-kind baby name book offers hundreds of choices for parents-to-be. From ancient to modern names and from popular to rare, this handy resource includes A-to-Z listings on a variety of themes, such as names for redheads, brunettes and blondes; famous Irish personages; Irish saints; magic, myth and legend; Celtic animals and plants; historical events and literature; and alternate spellings.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Very Irish Names December 27, 2008
If you are looking for a Traditional Irish name this is a great book, but by traditional I mean one no one will be able to pronounce or spell correctly. There are old Irish names, with a few common ones mixed in, 90% of this book I found useless.
Not what I expected, but ok June 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a good book if it is the first or only one you'll get. I did not like the sections, I found myself using the index then looking up the names. The one section I did like was the "translation from English to Irish" section. The pronunciations were great, but a few were different than I have HEARD them pronounced. I bought this book to look for more names, but I find the website [...] has most of the same names, and you can hear the pronuncations. I'm glad I got my copy used.
 Eire May 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a really well laid out book. We found one of our girls names in there (Keira) and quite a few others that made it to the list. In the end, the other daughter received a Russian name ;-)
I've given this book to another Irish friend expecting twins.
 Not worth the return postage... October 30, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I ordered this book and was going to return it because it is such poor quality but it wasn't worth the return postage. I put it in the recycling bin instead. Seriously! I was surprised to see so many good reviews that I felt it was my duty to report otherwise. Try doing a web search if you are looking for Irish baby names rather than wasting the money on this book. You can see by my signature that we went a different route entirely (this was not caused by the terrible quality of the book, however! We decided our surname was good enough).
 Rough at best September 16, 2003
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Only mildly accurate, the clumsy mix of true Gaelic forms along with Anglicizations leaves me a bit put off. This might make it useful to many, but it is not at all formal in structure. There are also some names with variations given that are just ridiculously old. Noone uses the root 'dub' in place of 'dubh.' Some truly ancient names are included, but their selections are random. It appears to be mostly gloss from a few limited sources.
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