Áine () is an Irish female given name. It means "radiance" and was the name of the Irish Celtic goddess of wealth and summer:
Áine
Áine () is an Irish goddess of summer, wealth and sovereignty. She is associated with midsummer and the sun,MacKillop, James (1998) ''Dictionary of Celtic Mythology'' Oxford: Oxford University Press pp.10, 16, 128 and is sometimes represent ...
. Notable people with the name include:
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Áine Brady
Áine Brady (; born 8 September 1954) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Minister of State from 2009 to 2011. She was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare North constituency from 2007 to 2011.
She was Fianna Fáil's you ...
(born 1954), Irish Fianna Fáil politician and teacher
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Áine Rose Daly
Áine Rose Daly is a British actress and singer-songwriter who has appeared in films and television.
She played Annabelle Schenkel in the Amazon Prime series '' Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan'' in 2018, and in 2020 she appeared as Sandy (previously k ...
, British actor and singer
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Áine Lawlor
Áine Lawlor (born 1961) is an Irish radio and television broadcaster who has hosted many shows on RTÉ Radio 1. She has worked on various news and current affairs radio and television programmes, including ''News at One'', ''The Week in Politic ...
(born 1965), Irish radio broadcaster
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Áine Minogue
Áine Minogue (born 27 May 1977, Borrisokane, County Tipperary) is an Irish harpist, singer, arranger and composer, now living in the Boston area. She has recorded thirteen solo albums in styles generally categorized as Celtic, world, folk, spiri ...
(born 1977), Irish harpist
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Áine Murphy, Northern Irish politician
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Áine Ní Chonaill (born 1952), Irish activist
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Aine Ni Mhuiri, Irish actress
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Áine O'Gorman (born 1989), Irish footballer
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Áine Phillips
Áine Phillips is a performance and visual artist based in Galway, Ireland.
Education
Phillips received her Bachelors of Arts in Fine Art Sculpture at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 1988. In 2001, she received her Masters o ...
, Irish performance artist
* Áine Ní Murchadha, Princess of
Leinster
Leinster ( ; ga, Laighin or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, situated in the southeast and east of Ireland. The province comprises the ancient Kingdoms of Meath, Leinster and Osraige. Following the 12th-century Norman invasion of Ir ...
, fl. 1169
* Áine Ní Duinn Sleibhe, Queen of
Airgíalla
Airgíalla (Modern Irish: Oirialla, English: Oriel, Latin: ''Ergallia'') was a medieval Irish over-kingdom and the collective name for the confederation of tribes that formed it. The confederation consisted of nine minor kingdoms, all independe ...
, died 1171
* Áine Ní Donnchada, Queen of
Breifne, died 1386
* Áine Ní Eochagain, Queen of
Fermanagh
Historically, Fermanagh ( ga, Fir Manach), as opposed to the modern County Fermanagh, was a kingdom of Gaelic Ireland, associated geographically with present-day County Fermanagh. ''Fir Manach'' originally referred to a distinct kin group of ...
, died 1466
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Irish-language feminine given names