Seoirse () is an Irish masculine given name. It is the Irish equivalent of

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. The name was rare in Ireland prior to the ascension of the

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to the throne of the

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in the early 18th century. A rare variant of the name is Seorsa.

People

People with the name Seoirse include: *

Seóirse Bodley Seóirse Bodley (; 4 April 1933 – 17 November 2023) was an Irish composer and associate professor of music at University College Dublin (UCD). He was the first composer to become a Saoi of Aosdána, in 2008. Bodley is widely regarded as one o ...

(1933–2023), Irish composer and associate professor of music *

Seoirse Brún Seoirse Brún (George Browne), was an Irish scribe, fl. 1876. Brún, a native of Creggduff, Annaghdown, County Galway, is known only from a manuscript called RBÉ F006. It contains the following note: ''George Browne Cregg Duff This Book/Belo ...

(George Browne; fl. 1876), Irish scribe * Seoirse Bulfin (born 1979), Irish hurling manager and player * Seoirse Clancy (George Clancy; 1881–1921), Irish nationalist politician * Seoirse Mac Cluain (1894–1949), Irish-language scholar *Seoirse Mac Tomáis, the Irish name of

George Derwent Thomson George Derwent Thomson (; 1903 – 3 February 1987) was a British classical scholar, Marxist philosopher, and scholar of the Irish language. Classical scholar Thomson studied Classics at King's College, Cambridge, where he attained First ...

(1903–1987), British classical scholar, Marxist philosopher, and scholar of the Irish language * Seoirse Ó Dochartaigh (born 1946), Irish musician, artist and writer

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