#3 | Surname/HerName

Published: Sept. 1, 2017, 6:07 a.m.

Surnames, a relatively recent invention, are done differently from language to language. In Irish, conventions exist to include gender and marital status identifiers in female surnames, but choices are still available. Darach talks (but mostly listens) to Si\xfan, \xc9imear and Gear\xf3id\xedn about how this quirk of the language and how it dovetails with attitudes to Irish names \u2013 and women\u2019s names \u2013 in general.\n\n--- \n\nContact the show at https://twitter.com/motherfocloir or email us at motherfocloir@headstuff.org.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices