Mom left furious when she learns the ‘Irish’ name she gave her daughter is not Irish at all

The internet is divided over an argument between a mother who chose an ‘Irish’ name for her baby , and a bluntly honest sister in law.

The woman posted the question to a popular Reddit thread AITA? which users frequently post in, asking other users to verify if they are in the wrong.

The user begins her post writing: “I am Irish, my husband is American… His sister has always been obsessed with my accent, my name, and the fact that her brother married a real Irish person.”

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The user went on to explain that her sister in law was expecting a baby girl and told her how excited she was for her to learn the ‘Irish’ name, once the baby was born. She wrote that the baby’s father reached out and asked if the name was a real, Irish name to which she responded that it was not. She never spoke directly to the mother about it.

When the baby was born, she announced the name and the Reddit user interjected in an argument about the ‘Irishness’ of the baby’s name writing, “I said the first name was Scottish, not Irish, and that the middle name is not the Irish spelling or anything close to it.”

The baby’s mother insisted that the name was Irish, as, according to her, Irish and Scottish cultures are the same thing. Drama then ensued within the family as word about the Reddit user’s brutal honesty spread but the social thread seemed to take a different approach.

Reddit seemed to agree that it was not only inaccurate, but highly rude that the mother would suggest that Irish and Scottish cultures were the same. They acknowledged some overlap between the two but pointed out the ignorance of someone who wants to give their child a name but not learn where it comes from.

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One user @wanesandwaves, wrote: “If she was so adamant to get in on Irish culture, and have a kid with an Irish name then surely the most sensible thing to do was… ask an actual Irish person (aka her sister in law.)”

Another responded: “If she goes ahead, every Irish and Scottish person will know her kids as one of those Americans who claims to be Irish and Scottish when it was really 50 generations ago or their grandpa lived in Belfast /Edinburgh for a wee while or their mom fancied a cool name and couldn’t be arsed to ask their Irish sister in law.”

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