Irish Surnames — More Than a Name

Irish surnames weren’t chosen. They were inherited long before birth — and they told the world exactly where you stood. Long before much of Europe had fixed family names, Ireland was already encoding kinship, obligation, protection, and memory into language itself. This episode looks at how Irish surnames actually worked, why they appeared so early, and how conquest and bureaucracy broke their grammar. It’s not a lesson in genealogy — it’s an attempt to relearn how to read a system that once held Irish society together.