Talk:Gallagher family

UK
shouldn't there be some mention of the name in Britain? like oh i don't know manchester? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.13.34.35 (talk) 07:41, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Pronunciation
How is the thing pronounced please? I heard both "Gallager" and "Gallaher"... thanks. 205.228.108.58 (talk) 08:47, 9 June 2010 (UTC) In Ireland it is pronouced "Gall-a-her". Outside their has been a coruption of the name. Resulting in the Gall-a-ger name in some parts of Britian and the USA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.100.138.149 (talk) 02:37, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

The problem is that Gallagher (when pronounced correctly) has a soft 'gh' sounds ('ch' in Scots) these sounds don't naturally exist in English - so we end up with an approximation. Both wrong but I prefer the sound of the Gallaher and think its slightly closer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.238.1.135 (talk) 16:52, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Research
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~oduibhin/scriobhnoiri/omhuirgoteamhair.doc — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.251.133.153 (talk) 16:50, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Lenitive case "Gh..."
As far as I know you don't add a 'h' to Ní Gallchóir/the lenitive case, it is not applicable due to the name beginning with the letter G. This article, Irish surname, corroborates the G & C exceptionalism — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.251.133.153 (talk) 00:06, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Notable gallaghers
The notable section was in chronological order pre-Aug 2014, but is now in total disarray.

Secondly, American - Carole Gallagher should be added to the list. She's the author of American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War published by the The MIT Press in 1993. Barring a link to amazon.com were her book is sold, the following are references to that fact -> *http://atomicphotographers.com/photographers/carole-gallagher/
 * http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/american-ground-zero-secret-nuclear-war-documentary-carole-gallagher

178.167.131.17 (talk) 15:02, 20 January 2015 (UTC)


 * The use of the .260 Remington by SGT Sherri Gallagher to win the 2010 NRA High Power National Championship contributed to her becoming the first woman to win the title of Soldier of the Year at the Best Warrior Competition.
 * 92.251.158.242 (talk) 01:31, 1 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Michael Monroe "OGolly" Gollaher hosted The Clann O'Gallchobhair (Gallagher)( http://www.ogallchobhair.org/ ) website from the late 1990s to earlier 2000s. This is is home page https://web.archive.org/web/20050307110509/http://www.gabrielcom.info/. He did quite a bit of research into notable Gallagher's which can be seen here. https://web.archive.org/web/20050307082802/http://www.ogallchobhair.org/maingate.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.251.133.153 (talk) 16:38, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Normans
The article proposes that "foreign help" is the same as "foreign helper" of Norsemen. I submit that some Gallaghers are indeed Norsemen/Normans. Elpasojeff (talk) 15:30, 24 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Can you present some evidence to support what you've written here?
 * Boundarylayer (talk) 13:45, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Article states the largest segment of Gallaghers are in Donegal. Donegal translates to "Fort of the Foreigners" from Gaelic. One should take that to mean the land was ruled by Foreigners of the Irish/Gaelic. It would make sense that those foreigners were the invading Vikings. So it makes sense that Gallaghers were descendants of those Normans, and were not O'Connors who helped them, but were Vikings that helped the O'Connors. The explanations given to tie Gallaghers to O'Connors seems like trying to convince us the sky is green instead of blue.

Motto
Someone edited the article to suggest that in Irish it is: Is e an dilseact mo ghloir. However none of the references here corroborate that, so I've removed it. It seems this person simply took the Latin version of the motto about faith and glory and translated it, rather then going to the root or Irish language motto. Boundarylayer (talk) 13:47, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

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Orphaned references in Gallagher family
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Reference named "Clavin": From Urney Chocolates:  From Eileen Gallagher:  From Harry Gallagher:  

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