Ben Mac Artáin
Mc is just a shorter way to spell Mac, Both countries will have their share of anglicised names beginning with Mc or Mac Mac = son
Liam Mac Conmí (Mac Conmidhe). The surname is associated with Co. Derry in Ulster.
spell out meaning of 'MC'
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Only some Irish names have Mc in them. Where you do see it, it means "son of". So McCarthy would mean son of Carthy.
McDonald's
McDonald's
John Mc Court has written: 'James Joyce' -- subject(s): Biography, Irish Novelists, Novelists, Irish, Pictorial works
the prefix Mac, Mc means "son of" in Scottish usage this is equivalent to the Jewish ben, as in ben-Yosef the Irish also have a similar format and it's on the tip of my tongue The tip o' yer tongue contains an 'O' short form of 'Of' so these prefaces mean the same really, Mac (or/and 'Mc') Scottish gaelic shortening of 'make' O' Irish Gaelic shortening of 'of' true of the clan naming of almost all Celts. ;)
ben mc adams
Because most of the names start with Mc
Mac Séartha (a branch of the Ossory Fitzpatricks).