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From: "Sarah McHugh" <>
Subject: Re: [FER-GOLD] Burns family in Fermanagh
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 08:32:09 -0000
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Thanks, Brian. I'm inclined to agree. So what you are suggesting is that
the name is simply an anglicisation of a Gaelic name. At what time would
Gaelic names start being anglicised? I'm obviously aware of the mapping of
Ireland by the British Army around 1830s, from Brian Friel's play
"Translations". Would the anglicisation of Gaelic names also date from this
time?

Frank McHugh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Mac Domhnaill" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [FER-GOLD] Burns family in Fermanagh


> Well Frank, for what it's worth, I doubt if the Burns family belong to
> the Plantation. I will have to look again at my copy of The Fermanagh
> Story and see where Fr Livingstone got that idea. For my money, they were
> in Ireland a long time before the Plantation, but that is only a gut
> feeling based on the fact that most, if not all, people of the name that
> I know are Catholic. Had they arrived with the Plantation, it is unlikely
> they would have remained Catholic. Certainly the Armstrongs, Grahams etc
> who were at least nominally Catholic in the old country, subscribed to
> the Established Church of Ireland following their arrival in Fermanagh.
> All the best
> Brian
> On Dé Máirt, Noll 7, 2004, at 19:13 Europe/Dublin,


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