O'Donoghue

Donoghue or O'Donoghue is an anglicized form of the Irish language surname Ó Donnchadha or Ó Donnchú.

Etymology

The name means "descendant of Donnchadh", a personal name composed of the elements donn "brown-haired [man]" and cath "battle". Spelling variations (which include an initial "Ó" or omit it) include Donoghue, Donaghoe, Donoughe, Donaho, Donahoe, Donough, Donahue, Donahow, Doneghoe, Donehue, Donighue, Donihue, Donoho, Donohoe, Donahugh, Donohough, Donohow, Donohue, Donaughue, Donaghie, Donaghy, Doughue, Dougue, Donihoo and many more. Some of these variations exist also in Northern Ireland and Scotland with the same meaning in Scottish Gaelic as in Irish.

Different septs

There are several completely different O'Donoghue families in Ireland.

People with the surname O'Donoghue
In entertainment, sports, activism
gollark: Security protip: encryption being broken won't affect you if you publish all your data on the internet publicly beforehand!
gollark: Well, quantum computers can factor primes faster than classical ones...
gollark: But I don't want to be turned into paperclips!
gollark: Quantum computers only make some operations faster. They can't just do anything really fast.
gollark: Secondly, symmetric encryption is not, as far as I know, affected much, except that it's slightly less horrendously impractical to brute force due to Grover's algorithm or something.

See also
Other Munster families

References
  1. profile Archived 2013-04-21 at Archive.today
  • Byrne, Francis J., Irish Kings and High-Kings. Four Courts Press. 2nd edition, 2001.
  • Curley, Walter J.P., Vanishing Kingdoms: The Irish Chiefs and their Families. Dublin: Lilliput Press. 2004.
  • MacLysaght, Edward, Irish Families: Their Names, Arms and Origins. Irish Academic Press. 4th edition, 1998.
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