what are some romantic names for irish female icons in past centuries?
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Grace O'Malley (or Gráinne Mhaol) was a seventeenth century Irish pirate queen. \n\nMolly Malone of the eponymous Dublin song - "crying cockles and muscles, alive alive oh". \n\nMaude Gonne - a brilliant and beautiful devotee to the cause of Irish nationalism. WB Yeats was infatuated by her and wrote many poems about her. \n\nCatherine Hayes - Irish opera singer in the 19th century.\n\nKate O'Brien - 20th century Irish novelist\n\nMary Robinson - President of Ireland in the 1990's, and human rights campaigner. \n\nMáire MacEntee - 20th century Irish novelist and poet
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This is very specific to the culture you live in, and to the Victorian era (1832-1907).  Also remember most people, as in maybe 1 in 10,000 will even have the thought of understanding or thinking of the meaning of a specific flower.  Presuming you live in the U.S. these are thought to be the representations.\n\n* Daffodil : respect and admiration\n* Mum : bronze excitement;red sharing & love;white truth;yellow secret admirer\n* Poinsettia : asking for “Be Of Good Cheer”\n* rattan : ?\n* Chrysanthemum : friendship; red love; white truth;yellow slighted love\n\nThe color is more important then the type of flower:\nRed love, passion, lust\nPink happiness, love\nWhite  purity, innocence, pure love (not eros, but pathos or philia)\nYellow  friendship; or slighted love; or secret love
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Calyborri\n\nCalyborri Ine Kneale was my ancestress from Mallenhowne, Isle of Man.\n\nAlwara, Alvarissa, Lucia, Alice, Helwise, Bridget, Ada, etc. are all other names from that time period in my family tree.\n\nIf you want Norse/Viking names, I have a BUNCH of those too!
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Priestess\nEquestrienne\nMediatrix\nComedienne
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St. Patrick\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick\n\nWilliam of Orange\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_orange
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" The traditional wedding ring of the Irish since the 17th Century, the Royal Claddagh ring is today worn by people all over the world as a universal symbol of love, loyalty, friendship and fidelity, and of their Irish heritage.\n\n For love, we wear the heart. In friendship, we wear the hands. And, in loyalty and lasting fidelity: we wear the Royal Claddagh crown.\n\n Worn on the right hand, with crown and heart facing out, the ring tells that the wearer's heart is yet to be won. While under love's spell it is worn with heart and crown facing inwards. Wearing the ring on the left hand, with the crown and heart facing inwards, signifies that your love has been requited.\n\n An original symbol of the "Fisher Kings" of the Galway town of Claddagh, Ireland, was first fashioned into the traditional ring back in the 17th Century during the reign of Mary II. Legend has it that an Irish young man, Richard Joyce, bound for the West Indian slave plantations was kidnapped himself in rough seas by a band of Mediterranean pirates and sold to a Moorish goldsmith who over the many long years of his exile helped him perfect the skills of a master craftsman. When in 1689 King William III negotiated the return of the slaves, Joyce returned to Galway - despite, it said, the Moor's offer of the daughter's hand in marriage and a princely dowry of half of all his wealth.\n\n Back in Ireland a young women had never stopped faithful waiting for her true love to return. Upon which time when he presented her with the now famous Royal Claddagh gold ring - a symbol of their enduring love. Two hands to represent their friendship, the crown to signify their loyalty and lasting fidelity, and the sign of the heart to symbolise their eternal love for each other. They soon married, never to be separated again."
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The island of Ireland contains a number of castles of various sizes, ages and conditions. The most notable date from the medieval Norman period of Irish history (1169-1500AD).\n\n"Castles in Ireland"\n\n.B\nBirr Castle\nBlarney Castle\nBunratty Castle\n\n.C\nCahir Castle\nCarrickmines Castle\nCastleknock Castle\nCastles in Ireland\nCastles in the Republic of Ireland\n\n.D\nDesmond Castle\nDonegal castle\nDoonagore Castle\nDromoland Castle\nDublin Castle\nDunboy Castle\nDunguaire Castle\n\n.F\nFoulksrath Castle\n\n.G\nGrianan of Aileach\n\n.H\nHowth Castle\n\n.K\nKilkenny Castle\nKing John's Castle\nKnappogue Castle\n\n.L\nLeap Castle\nLismore Castle\n\n.M\nMalahide Castle\n\n.N\nCastles in Northern Ireland\n\n.O\nO'Dea Castle\nOrmonde Castle\n\n.P\nParkavonear Castle\n\n.R\nRathfarnham Castle\nRedwood Castle\nRock of Dunamase\nRoss Castle\n\n.S\nSlane Castle\nSwords Castle\n\n.T\nTower house\nTrim Castle
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There are many!  Check out this web site and see if you find the one you have in mind http://tacomaweekly.tripod.com/Irish-Quotations.html
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female names.  adalgisa, beata, chiara, clelia, ginevra, lucia, marcia, paola, serena, viviana.\n\nmale names.  abbondio, ernesto, gualtiero, lucan, marco, matteo, nicodemo, ottavio, stefano, vincenzo.
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Hi Podge, as an insider (Irish) I'm probably the last one to tell you that Hibernian males are appealling to other folk but a German friend of mine had a long romance with a Kildare guy so if you're a decent sort (as opposed to a wannabee Ross O'Carroll-Kelly) you'll win the hearts of lots of fair ladies in far flung places. Of course, you may end up meeting and falling for an Irish girl on one of Sydney's beaches. Hope you get on well.
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Feminine - Belle\nMasculine - ... Tony
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I love the Italian and Irish accents, I think they're so totally cute!
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It depends what you are looking for.  Alice might be a better choice as it is not a common name in the U.S. - though quite popular in England.\n\nJacquelyn brings to mind the Kennedy's and Camelot - glamour and fantasy.\n\nEither name is a wonderful choice.
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Ostara is the one I believe most closely matches Easter. She represents fertility and renewal just as spring has sprung. \n\nDid you know: Eggs were (and still are!) dyed or painted bright colors as an offering to Ostara. Dawn is the best time to invoke her. In days of old, fires were lit at dawn in her honor. It always amazes me how traditions like this survive over the millennia.---
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Morgan Le Fay, interesting to note that she was also classed as a Celtic death-goddess.\n\nOther names her hasbeen known as:\nMorgan the Fate\nFata Morgana\n\nSometimes she was known as the ninefold goddess, the 'Nine Sisters called Morgen' ruling the Fortunate Isles in the far west, where dead heros went. Sometimes she or they became mermaids. Morgans or "sea-women" could draw down to their palaces of gold and crystal at the bottom of the sea of ponds those ill-fated to venture to near the water.\n\nMorgan was related to the Crone aspect as Mother Deathand would cast a destroying curse on every man. Even Arthurian romances which presented her as a human being, Arthur's sister, inconsistently admitted: "Morgan the Goddess is her name, and there is never a man so high and proud but she can humble and tame him.\n\nSometime she kindly promised immortality to her favored lovers, like Ogier the Dane, who accompanied her to paridise. As the Morrigan, she stage-managed the contest between Cu Chulainn and a giant named Terrible. She presided over Cu Chulainn's killing of his spring-time rival, in a tale based on the Celtic legend of Gawain and the Green Knight.\n\nMorgan sat at the head of the table in the Green Knight's castle, presiding over death and resurrectionof the rival year-gods as they beheaded one another in thier proper seasons. Gawain was obviously a solar hero, his strength waxing in the morning and waning in the afternoon; he was one of the four brothers representing the four solar seasons. The Green Knight was his perpetual antagonist.\n\nGawain bore Morgan's pentacle as a heraldic device on his blood-red shield. He and his rival seem to have established the ceremony of knighthood, a symbolic decapitation, which formerly transformed a victem into a god at the end of the year.\n\nLate romances deprived Morgan of her divinity and made her human. Morgan became Arthur's sister, yet she still held the power of necromancy, a prototypical witch. She received a fictitious husband, King Uriens of Gore, probably a corrupt form of the classic castrated heaven-god Uranus. Her name was applied to almost anything magical, miraculous, or misleading, as Fata Morgana. An old word for witches' spells, glamor, came from Glamorgan, the Goddess's sacred territory in Wales.\n\nMorgan's mysterious Fortunate Isles continued to appear n Irish folklore up to the present time. It was claimed that off the coast of Galway nine islands rose out of the sea every seven years; but if anyone tryed to reach them by boat they would vanish.\n\n\nI hope this helps out, sorry I got carried away with the length of this response, but it is a favoured subject of mine.
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Freedom, U2, Guinness, GAA, staying neutral, Irish music, Bob Geldof, James Joyce. Any of these could be counted
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I would have to concur Melissa Ethridge, Rosie O'donell,& Ellen Degeneress are possible lesbian icons. But, I'll throw two more probables Chastity Bono  and Elton John.........\nWomen are that group though that don't hold up icons for value or role models. And lesbians from the ones I know are even stronger and are just as happy not having to support an icon.