Hickey: Very affectionate Irish vampires who also figured out how to get drinks without paying for them.
O’Dear: Very nice people who swear far less than could possibly be good for them.
O’Maniac: Just about everybody, at some time.
O’Godno: Migration agents, responsible for almost as much Irish emigration as the Famine and the English.
O’Dendron: Obsessive Irish landscapers who took it a bit far and became plants.
O’Muchisit: Legendary masochists with pricing problems.
O’Wake: Liars, but very good at it if you’re not O’Wake enough.
O’Blivious: … And happy, too.
MacAleese: Unique Irish family which rents hamburgers.
Murphy: Law makers.
McCarthy: Only known example of a lisp deliberately put in a surname by people who flukishly keep winning things in pubs.
Rafferty: Famous Irish philosophers of life’s rules.
Yes, my family is Irish. We’re Hickeys. Just look right up there for an hour or two… Thanks.
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