Hip-hop's Gaelic Names

A sign we've been in the USA too long: when in the Islands recently and seeing references to a musical group McFly, we were reading that as M, C, Fly and assuming that he/they is/are a hip-hop outfit. But no, it really is meant to be read like a surname and they are in fact a quasi-rock boy band. Then there's the film director McG, which again contains hip-hop-esque letters, but it didn't catch us out the same way as the teenyboppers.

Incidentally, the latter Mc, who is actually the quite Irish sounding Joseph McGinty Nichol, director of Charlie's Angels, just fell out with Warner Brothers over his planned direction of a new Superman movie and was quickly replaced by Bryan Singer (Usual Suspects, X-Men).

But we digress. Mike Skinner is doing a good job of creating a respectable and distinctive white English rap, so it's not fanciful to imagine someone developing an Irish version, not forgetting of course the pioneering work of House of Pain. Anyway, finding a name won't be a problem. Someone should start with O'G.