Learn about Mc vs. Mac surnames and understand how a prefix to a name is used. Explore the history of Scots and Irish surnames and examples of Mac...
守一慢英语 ELT/TESOL PhD 今天知道了为什么名字里有大写Mac/ Mc:Scottish and Irish patronymic surnames frequently have the prefix Mac or MC. When these surnames were originally developed, they were formed by adding the Gaelic word Mac, which means son of, to the name of the original bearer's ...
Hey Mac ... or it is Mc? Different spellings of surnames confuse search for ancestors.(ROOTS)Jones, Paul
“A feature of the degradation of the Gael,” wrote Edward MacLysaght in Irish Families (1957), “and the inferiority complex it produced was the wholesale discarding [from the eighteenth century onwards] of the distinctive prefixes O and Mac. Nor was this confined to the downtrodden peasantry....
It goes on to discuss Charles Macklin’s playThe True Born Irishman, first performed in Dublin in 1761 and six years later in London asThe Irish Fine Lady; the plot concerns a wealthy Dublin family, the O’Doghertys, Murrough and his wife Nancy, who is ashamed of her name: ...