Féilim

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Féilim or Feidhlim, is an

Old Irish: Fedlimid).[2] Féilim has been variously anglicised as Felim, Phelim, Feilmy, or even Felix
.

List of people

Feidlimid

Féilim

  • Saint Felim (also spelled Feidlimid, Feidhlimidh, Felimy, Feidhilmethie, Feidlimthe, Fedlimid, Fedlimidh, Phelim, or Phelime), an Irish hermit and priest of the mid sixth century
  • Felim Ua Conchobair
    (also Felim mac Cathal Crobderg Ua Conchobair), king of Connacht between 1233 and 1265
  • Aedh mac Felim Ó Conchobair
    , his son and king of Connacht between 1265 and 1274
  • Aedh Muimhnech mac Felim Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht between 1274 and 1280
  • Felim, Feilim or Fedlim Ó Conchobair, king of Connacht between 1310 and 1316
  • Felim McFiach O'Byrne, a Gaelic chieftain died in 1630
  • Felim O'Neill of Kinard (also Phelim MacShane O'Neill, or Féilim Ó Néill), Irish catholic nobleman leader of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and executed during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1652
  • Felim Egan, Irish painter born in 1952

It is also used for:

  • Fedlimid mac Daill (also Feidhlimidh Mac Daill, or Felim mac Dall), a bard of the Irish mythology, father of Deirdre
  • Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Felim
  • Slieve Felim Mountains (Irish: Sliabh Eibhlinne), mountain range in Ireland in County Limerick
  • Slieve Felim Way, a long-distance trail in Ireland between Murroe in County Limerick and Silvermine Mountains in County Tipperary.

Phelim

  • Phelim (Felix) O'Neill
    (died 1709), head of the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, and Chief of this Catholic Lineage
  • Phelim Boyle (born 1941), professor of finance in the School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada
  • Phelim Calleary (1895–1974), Irish Fianna Fáil politician
  • Phelim Caoch O'Neill (also Phelim Caoch Ó Neill, or Feidhlimidh Caoch Ó Néill), Prince of the Cenél nEógain from 1517 to 1542
  • Phelim Drew (born 1969), Irish actor
  • Phelim McDermott (born 1963), English actor and stage director
  • Phelim O'Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan (1909–1994), politician in Northern Ireland and a hereditary peer in the British House of Lords

See also

References

  1. ^ "FEIDHLIM - Irish Names and Surnames". www.libraryireland.com. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  2. ^ "FEIDHLIMIDH - Irish Names and Surnames". www.libraryireland.com. Retrieved 9 February 2024.

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