Poor old Mary has had a good innings, and still retains a high spot as a middle name, so she'll probably be recognised as THEĪrchitypical Irish girls name for many years to come. It relates the circumstances under which the great exodus to the New World began, the trials and tribulations faced by these tough American pioneers and the enduring influence they came to exert on the politics, education and religion of the country.None of 2020's top 10 most popular names for girls appeared anywhere in the top 100 girls' names in 1970. The Scotch-Irish in America tells the story of how the hardy breed of men and women, who in America came to be known as the ‘Scotch-Irish’, was forged in the north of Ireland during the seventeenth century. Maguire provides a substantial and invaluable account of the extreme difficulties faced by pioneer Irish immigrants in North America during the 19th Century. His account of the journey provides invaluable eyewitness testimony to the trauma and tragedy that many emigrants had to face en route to their new lives in Canada and America.
The Ocean Plague: or, A Voyage to Quebec in an Irish Emigrant Vessel is based upon the diary of Robert Whyte who, in 1847, crossed the Atlantic from Dublin to Quebec in an Irish emigrant ship. The ordinary form of the name, however, is Máire, Muire being used exclusively for the Blessed Virgin Mary, and, therefore, the most honoured of all names of women. At present one-fourth of the women of Ireland are named Mary. I find only a few instances of the use of the name before the 17th century. Even in Ireland, there were few Marys until comparatively recent times. It is only about the middle of the 12th century that we find the first instances of its use in Europe, whither apparently it had been brought by the devotion of the crusaders.
It was afterwards the name of several Jewish women, including the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, but was very slow in creeping in to the Western Church. Historically and grammatically examined, it seems very likely that it is a Hebrew name signifying ‘bitterness,’ in the sense of grief, sorrow, affliction, either in reference to the pains of childbirth, or to the moral condition of the mother and family, oppressed by some great misfortune, or perhaps to the sad period of the Egyptian bondage, to which the Israelites were subject at the time of the birth of the first Mary, the sister of Moses. About seventy different meanings are given to Mary, in great part suggested by devotion to the Mother of God rather than by solid critical sense. MUIRE, genitive idem (the same), Mary Hebrew-Mrjám, which can be read Mirjám, or better Mariám, a name of difficult interpretation, as are all names which appear in a very contracted form and in which it is difficult to discover the root-word from which they are derived.
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