Nollaig
Nollaig pronounced "null + ig"
Used for both male and female it is the Irish word for Christmas, as in Noel or Noelle.
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Rosaleen Rosaleen comes from the Latin name Rosa and means 'little rose'. The Irish form is Roisin. Records show that the name has been in use in Ireland since the sixteenth century. When the expression of Irish patriotic poetry and song was outlawed during Ireland's troubled and turbulent past, the Irish bards would disguise their nationalistic verse as love songs. In the figure of Roisin Dubh ("Dark Rosaleen"), a Gaelic poem translated by James Clarence Mangan in 1835, the name became a poetic symbol of Ireland, reflecting the Irish tradition of disguising outlawed patriotic verse as love songs.
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