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St. Patricks Day 2009
Members List Updated
Come Join the Celtic Society. The Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Celtic Society is an organization of active and retired Toronto Fire Fighters and friends. The society shall be devoted to family, community, music, and all things Celtic. We will celebrate the life, culture, singing and playing of music, and general good times associated with Canada, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, and all other Celtic societies. For more information contact
Scottish Gaelic proverbs
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Erin is a Hiberno-English derivative of
Irish “Éirinn,” the dative case of the Irish word for Ireland. The name originally derived from the name "Eireann"
in Gaelic.[1] Poets and nineteenth-century
Irish nationalists also used Erin in
English as a romantic name
for Ireland, as shown in the catchphrase (when speaking of Ireland's experiences with
Britain), “Let Erin Remember.” According to Irish
mythology and folklore, the name was given to
the land by the Milesians after the goddess
Ériu. Erin go bragh (“Éirinn go brách” in standard orthography), a slogan dating from
the 1798 revolution, means “Ireland for ever.” The etymological history of the word as it drifted throughout the Gaelic region gave rise to its use by the early Scots to both mean Ireland
and "west," as Ireland lies to the west of Scotland.
[2] Erin is a given name in the United States, sometimes for both sexes, although it is principally used a
female name. It first became a popular name in the United States, rather than in Ireland simply because no kings or queens were named Erin in history.
Erin has been used as one of the many spellings of the name of the Scottish Clan Irwin, which has been involved
in the Scottish Plantations of Ireland.[3]
However, their name was originally derived from the place of the same name near Dumfries, and means "green water", from
Brittonic ir afon.
[4] [5]
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