Reaction to my Reaction(!)

07May08

Right, this is just a quick note – mainly because I’m in a rush, but also because I don’t wanna be stuck in front of a computer when the weather in Ireland at the moment is something akin to being in the south of France!
Since I’ve posted the blog about giving up using my Irish [...]

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Name Change

02May08

During my exams, a lecturer of Irish told me how my surname, De Buitléir, was technically ‘wrong.’
The lecturer, who is ironically a Londoner, told me of how the surname, which is the Gaelic version of ‘Butler,’ should not be spelt in the way that I’ve been spelliing it for over ten years, not to mention [...]

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