Coughlin

Coughlin is an Irish surname, an Anglicization of the Gaelic Mac Cochláin or Ó Cochláin.

Notable bearers include Father Charles Coughlin, the controversial 1930s radio priest whose broadcasts mixed populism with antisemitism, and Tom Coughlin, the NFL coach who led the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories.

Irish-surname

Gaelic

Celtic linguistic tradition

Eire · Emerald Isle · St. Patrick · Guinness · soda bread · craic · brogue · fiddle · hurling · Riverdance

genealogy

ancestry

Family line of descent

  • lineageDescent from progenitors
  • clanRelated group sharing ancestry
  • bloodlineAncestry through generations

descendants · forebears · progenitors · heritage · pedigree · kinship · relatives · kindred · tribe · scion

Opposites
political ideology and tolerance

CoughlinFDR

Depression-era presidential initials

Eleanor Roosevelt · Walter White

religious voice in politics

CoughlinMartin Luther King Jr.

Desmond Tutu · Fred Rogers · Billy Graham

use of mass media

CoughlinEdward R. Murrow

Walter Cronkite · Fred Rogers · Carl Sagan · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Abraham Lincoln

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G