Had the pleasure today of getting up close and personal with some of John O’Donvan’s handiwork and his edits for the names of Tory Island with an excellent session hosted by the wonderful Crystal Bennes @ria.ie 😍

Inishowen (Inis Eoghain 'Eoghan's island') is named after Eoghan, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages. As the O'Neill's importance increased, their territory was named Tyrone (Tír Eoghain 'Eoghan's land'). The O'Neills were based at Aileach 'stony place' at Greenan above Derry.

Just a quick reminder of this week’s Spring lecture, hosted by the Ulster Place-Name Society and delivered by Dr Justin Ó Gliasáin - ‘The Place-Names of Inishowen’. All welcome!!!

Out on the road in Belfast this afternoon doing some field work as part of our bilingual street name provision for Translink. Examples like THIS is why we do what we do 🤦🏻‍♀️