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I came across this apparently Irish name today (prn. EE-sha) and it seems quite a few parents have picked up on it. I've never heard of it and some googling reveals that it actually means 'age' in Irish Gaelic. There's a post from someone on yahoo answers saying it's 'weird' to her for this reason. Apart from a few dubious forum posts where people claim it's Irish, it doesn't appear to be a genuine Irish name. Am I mistaken? and if so what does it mean? Is it just a common shortening of Laoise, Naoise etc?

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We must hang up in the belfry where the bats and moonlight laugh
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
Into the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlights and our love
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge