Rediscovering my Irish Roots

[Guapo]

Congratulations

[Merida]

what irish surnames do you have? I know there is an irish Argentinian community and one of my relatives met a girl from Argentina with the surname Sullivan which is a very common surname in Boston.

I've heard Donovan and Moran a few times here, and the ones like end in -han, like Bohan.

[LightHouse89]

I've heard Donovan and Moran a few times here, and the ones like end in -han, like Bohan.

Donovan is very Irish. Moran sounds Irish too. Bohan sounds Welsh to me for some reason.

[LightHouse89]

They are on the OP, the Northern Irish being the most recent since they were Glaswegians. Reading about this subject I once came across the statement that Protestan Irish immigrants in Scotland did not suffer the same prejudice as their Catholic countrymen.

Alot of Irish protestants were from Northern England and lowland Scotland thats probably why.

[Smaug]

Alot of Irish protestants were from Northern England and lowland Scotland thats probably why.

Aye, in the end they were just "Ulster Scots".

[Merida]

Donovan is very Irish. Moran sounds Irish too. Bohan sounds Welsh to me for some reason.

Really? Doesn't sound Welsh to me. '-han' has always sounded very Irish.

I looked it up and it's the Anglicized form of the Gaelic-Irish '-chain'.

Bohan = O Buadhachain
Sheehan = O Siodhachain