The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-30
SOWE IRISH NAMES.
They suggest an Italian Origin to an Anna.
tear EtyHOlogist.

te,sr Etymologist.
To rHE ENRON oF TIVE SIN SIR Tho
ardent and illu~triou- Irish race IL a people
for which | have strongly anectiona'~
! admiration This interest in the Iri, h led
me la make an inquiry Ia which am morr
Immediately prompted nv one or two names
lately observed :" he horne. mnnccoun'ably
to mo. nv persons of Irish descent IN a dis
trict in one OF oar cities.
Nv question IL Has there ever h-en = con-
siderable. a more than incidental mixture
Of Italian blood in lr~land'
The names which actrIata the idea that
there must have been q definite Italian
minglina are four. That Is not 80 wrightv
- number. but the names themselves are all
more apparently Ausonian than the name ~
Lynch Is Austrian. A. foX hunting bearer
of this name onas, assured me oi II that in
eastern Europe " had been Lent or LEM
The fir, nam- Of nay four - Costello
From my school DAYS ! remember tall
HE y,ler called .o-tello. on stalking high
hicycl. NJ tn. tall first type. the only
type thai II has not misbsc"nis "a mans
figure to ride This Young man was Of Irish
descent. and the name. horne nv persons ~
such descent - common enough Yet must
II not h" originally Italian,
In later. hig hoy school DAYS. there was
cla->mate Who had Irish blood on one side
represented IN has Christian name Of Dslano
This II familiar Ia W. as AN IRISH name but
can ~ he ori ginaily Irish. There ar" char.
actertStIC IN Irish -yllableS and words m
the general Irish uttersn'" "A drawl -
SHARPNESS and u burr any one or 4 -IcceS-
sion Of these none nf which Is possibly
hintcd in IN" D"lann name. In DELANEY \
prs-umptIve variation. the name seem.
10 become Hibernl"ized importing IN.
draw IN the middle'-yllsbis
And will ~ he rIid. for mc tn refer IN ihls
context to the name and person Of hat
une1ualed American m,nd In analysis and
poet" vision Of the social fabric. Or Edward
r. DevInet Hair - black a. to tie nearer
ria. than brown may ne Irish In fact IA
some Irish strains such hair i a trait. but
this. a. Irish. must he attended by a con
ira-'ing light complexion, ~ frequently
among their beauties Now, br D-yina
has on the contrary u DARK complexion
with the black hair which suggests a south
srn blood ~. further ha- a roundn-s- IN
tho finish Of hi- features and this IL Italian
lkc. milk" hi-. IN. distinctive elite fea-
lures have. like the Celtic accents. not \
smooth hut an angular finish. D.yine ia u
fr"Iuent Irish American pat ronymic hut II
-.'s'm- invariably associated with a DARK
ensemble III phy -Iuu-. different from he
Irish type.
hut the rno-t striking name 81 all that
I have met with - th.. Iate-t which "a
to speak Ia Mr. Tan"red who says that his
family came from Dublin. he knows Dis
ra"li : novel which among other things
has long made him curious about hts name
His appearance - IN IRISH For some rea-
son. ar none. ! dt-in~line Ia any Portuguese
French ar spanish a-criptinn of the names
they somehow taste only Italian. IL j. true
that tho Irish have had enough TO do With
IN. Portuguese to give ~ popular name to
IN
only tins name Ia reckon with on. would
say with conviction. Their. ~ an Irish fam
IlN thar -omeho~ comes down from an
'"-'or VIII" was RI Italian. and this would
IN. an individual family instance not one 81
group oi families Uf 4 foreign origin ~
the Austrian Irish lynch family ~ another.
or a. the Aust ran English F~ildinZr or
Fi-ldinn- at" the similar thing ia England.
TiTt when the notable other names u
prVtn". Costello and D-lano or D.lansv
are ma~-ed with this surprising IanCred.
liz. sum of them amounts almost to proof
that there - - whole section NJ Irish Which
- partly Italian. II indeed the IRISH I,-.npI-
hav" not received some Italian infusion ~
general
What j. III" historical ~ planation 81 fh---
names u" they hear any reference :" the
fact aud dat" ~ the CrrI-ade-' But 'hst
notion presents it, puzzle too, since " "a
men. not women. who wander ~ th" rIls.
and II j. NOR" conceivabI. that Italian men
should have come and ma rris.d in ireland
than that Irish women should have brought
back husband and names from the Nediter.
ran.an peninsula B'!i when in this case
did Italians rome TO ireland IN any nImbsr.
and in what passage 81 tbs, story Of fhs
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