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Beyond Shannon and Sean: An Enlightened Guide to Irish Baby Naming
by Linda Rosenkrantz, Pamela Redmond Satran
from St. Martin's Griffin
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Media: Paperback
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Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 
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Has Minor Flaws But I Love it Anyawy! 
I have Irish ancestry and I absolutely love Irish names and I bought this book and despite the lack of pronunciations and the few pronunciations they give being questionable I still love this book and all the cool catagories and lists that are so much fun to read and this is definitely my absolute favorite baby name book!I have found a lot of great boy and girl names that are so different then the typical popular names like Brian, Ryan, Kevin, Shannon, Kelly, Erin, etc, and I highly recommend this cool... more info
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Beyond Shannon and Sean: An Enlightened Guide to Irish Baby 
This book is terrible. It is hard to follow and the sequence is illogical. There is no section that simply lists names and meanings...everything is chopped up into silly little chapters. All in all, this book offers little new information. I got a better list of Irish names from a regular baby name book.
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Entertaining, Yes, Helpful, No!
This book is entertaining and makes a great conversation piece among my Irish relatives and friends but I have to be honest and admit that it's not very helpful or pratical with it's pronunciations or advice and I will be looking into buying some of the other Irish baby name books out there.
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Very useful despite minor flaws 
This book is much better than you would gather from reading the reviews. Although it's true, the pronunciations are not always correct, the book is an excellent source of interesting Irish names. There's also a section of names that are not used in Ireland for humans but which might appeal to people looking for an Irish-sounding name. The book also offers some historical perspectives not in other naming books.Since Irish is a tough language to pronounce merely by looking at Irish words, it might be a... more info
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