O'Brien
Common Celtic name
O'Brien is a common Irish surname meaning "descendant of Brian." It ranks among the most frequent surnames in Ireland and appears widely in Irish diaspora communities.
The name appears in literature—notably as the Inner Party torturer in Orwell's *1984* and as a character in Star Trek.
The O'Briens have lived in this county for generations.
Irish family name
- SullivanIrish-origin surname
- KellyIrish-origin given name
- RyanIrish-origin male name
- O'ConnorIrish patronymic surname
O'Neill · O'Sullivan · McCarthy · Kennedy · Walsh · Gallagher · Fitzgerald · Brennan
Masculine given name
- ConanIrish or barbarian name
- Star TrekSpacefaring TV franchise
- Deep Space NineSpace station near Bajor
- Nineteen Eighty-FourDystopian totalitarianism novel
Downton Abbey · transporter · Starfleet · Winston · torturer · engineer
Celtic linguistic tradition
- CelticOf Irish-Welsh descent
- DublinIrish capital city
- shamrockThree-leafed Irish emblem
- GuinnessIrish dry stout brand
St. Patrick · craic · brogue · emerald · fiddle · hurling · Gaelic football · Eire
Family line of descent
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- family treeChart of ancestors
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
roots · forebears · descendants · kinship · clan · generations · heirloom · inheritance
Murphy
Irish family name
O'Connor · O'Neill · O'Sullivan · McCarthy · Kennedy · Walsh · Gallagher · Fitzgerald · Brennan · Flanagan
Miles
Masculine given name
- ConanIrish or barbarian name
- Star TrekSpacefaring TV franchise
- Deep Space NineSpace station near Bajor
Nineteen Eighty-Four · Downton Abbey · transporter · Starfleet · Winston · torturer · engineer
Gaelic
Celtic linguistic tradition
Guinness · St. Patrick · craic · brogue · emerald · fiddle · hurling · Gaelic football · Eire · Hibernia
ancestry
Family line of descent
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- family treeChart of ancestors
bloodline · roots · forebears · descendants · kinship · clan · generations · heirloom · inheritance · tradition
- Irish SurnamesMurphy, Kelly, O'Neill, O'Connor, Walsh
- Irish-AmericanIrish-American, Irish American, Irish heritage, Irish diaspora, Irish immigrants
- literary villainsIago, Lady Macbeth, Moriarty, Voldemort, Dracula
- surnamesSmith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones
- Star TrekSpock, Kirk, Enterprise, USS Enterprise, Captain Kirk
- Irish LiteratureJames Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Yeats, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett