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  • From: "Michael Burns" <burns@panix.com>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Finger Lakes Permaculture Summer 2007 (Ithaca NY USA)
  • Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:52:21 -0400 (EDT)

I'm mortified. I screwed up your name and am truly, very sorry about
promulgating across the internet an incorrect version of your anglicized name.

While imperialism, racism, classism and ignorance is responsible for changing
many names (Burns is not the Irish Gaelic version of my name--it's Scottish,
hence somewhat more acceptable in late 19th century America--and my mother's
family name was "americanized" from McCusker to Cusker,) I'm afraid my error
was due to sloppiness and a failure to fact check. I should have sent you a
copy of the email before sending it out into cyberspace. I'll start correcting
editions of our announcements wherever I can.

Truly sorry,

Michael

>
>
> G'day,
>
> I trust that this greets you and all well.
>
> Just to clarify my surname is spelled DOHERTY not DOUGHERTY. Thanks to the
> various anglicisations/bastardisations of my family name as part of Great
> Britain's invasion of our homeland and the subsequent Irish diaspora perhaps
> I should just go back to our Gaelic name ÓDochartaigh, the spelling of which
> is much more difficult to pheonetically confuse...but then again....
>
> The idea of reverting my surname back to the original Gaelic has played on
> my mind for as long as I can remember. Certainly my recent visit (co
> teaching a PDC) to the Parihaka Pa (www.parihaka.com) in the Taranaki region
> of New Zealand only reinforced this, where most of the Maori there use their
> traditional language and names - though many also use their "whitefella"
> names in association. Given the strength of their culture, if I were them I
> would just use my tradition name - my feeling is that, to generalise, half
> the time people do not use their traditional names as many in the english
> speaking world can't be bothered going to the apparent trouble of
> remembering or respecting these names as the are apparently foreign-sounding
> and doesn't fit with the Esperanto that English is becoming. Works both ways
> and is an important aspect of respecting and sustaining cultures in my
> opinion.
>
>
> Yours and Growing,
>
>
> Hooroo,
>
> Darren ÓDochartaigh (Doherty)
> www.permaculture.biz
>
> "....Who so ever asks me of my birth...
> I will tell them I am born of Irish Princes who ruled in Donegal
> a thousand years ago; that I am descended from the High Kings of Ireland,
> and my name is from the Clann ÓDochartaigh!...."
>
>
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