Latin and Family Mottos

Re: Breen Motto Translation

Posted By: Gary Breen
Date: Thursday, 20 April 2006, at 5:16 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Breen Motto Translation (Aron Breen)

To the Breens out there who do not now live in Ireland I would like to point out that "Comnac an Ceane" is the wrong spelling of the family motto, the correct being "Comhrac an Ceart". The English translation is "Fight for Right" as already shown.

The original Breens were from the Irish Sept (or Clan) MacBraoin and were unseated from the family land in County Kilkenny by the Walsh Sept in the middle ages. Most of the Breens settled in neighbouring Wexford, where the majority of Irish Breens now live. Most became farm hands and tanners.

There are as many Breens in Liverpool, England as any other place on earth. Those emigrees who could not afford the fare to New York stayed in Liverpool and made lives for themselves there, mainly working as dock hands or seamen.

Keep the faith and Comhrac an Ceart!

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Aron Breen -- Thursday, 16 March 2006, at 12:59 a.m.

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Gary Breen -- Thursday, 20 April 2006, at 5:16 a.m.

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Carol Breen -- Tuesday, 4 December 2007, at 3:59 p.m.

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