In Irish it's Séamas/Séamus
In Scottish Gaelic it is Seumas.
James Horan - Gaelic footballer - was born in 1972.
James Conway - Gaelic footballer - was born in 1981.
Seumas
'Shamus' is an English phonetic spelling of the Irish Séamus and Scottish Gaelic Seumas which are equivalents of James.
Scots Gaelic is Seumas an sàbhalaiche. Irish Gaelic is Séamas an cosantóir.
It is generally accepted that the Scottish variation of James is "Hamish". This, however, is not the originally Gaelic spelling, but an anglicized version of "Sheumais" (pronounced roughly as "Hamish"). The Irish Gaelic for James is "Seamus".
In Scottish Gaelic it is spelled Seumas; in Irish Gaelic it is Séamas. The are versions of James.
In Irish it is spelled Séamus/Séamas and it is the Irish for 'James';in Scottish Gaelic it is spelled Seumas, also 'James'.James is a form of Jacob ('he who takes by the heel or overreaches'in Hebrew).
Yes .. Gaelic was banned in Scotland by King James VI in 1616.
Séamus. "Shay-muss"
Gobnait Ní Shéamais
Séamas an prócadóir