The Irish For: The varieties of cailín and the deductive Coleen Rooney

Darach Ó Séaghdha Writer MY FRIEND’S UNCLE claims that in the 1960s, there was a power cut across the West of Ireland during the final episode of hit TV show The Fugitive because during the ad break, everyone put the kettle on at the same time.

If only Game of Thrones had such a satisfying ending. It just so happens that this crafty Liverpudlian is the bearer of a very Irish name, one which leads us down an appropriately long and twisty rabbit hole. Compare this to Massachusetts where roughly 150 Colleens a year were born in the 1980s, or New York where over 200 Colleens a year arrived in the same time period.

This understanding must have been fairly widespread in New York City when Dion Boucicault’s play The Colleen Bawn opened there in 1860.

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