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Brady is the Gaelic Mac Brádaigh, the Cavan family whose chiefs held Cúil Bhríghde around Stradone and whose sons served as bishops of Kilmore. Here the Brady and MacBrady crests meet the Irish National Tartan on woven blankets, mugs, garden flags and Christmas ornaments for every branch of the name.
Brady is the anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac Brádaigh, 'son of Brádach', a personal name Father Patrick Woulfe reads as 'spirited'. The older English spelling MacBrady keeps the Mac, and O'Brady comes from Ó Brádaigh, a rarer form of the same name that is still in use. This collection covers Brady and MacBrady.
The MacBradys were a great Cavan family. Their chief ruled Cúil Bhríghde, the district around Stradone east of Cavan town, inside the O'Reilly kingdom of East Breifne, and the family gave the diocese of Kilmore a line of bishops. Later came poets: Philip Mac Brádaigh, the priest turned Church of Ireland parson remembered for his comic verse, and Fiachra Mac Brádaigh, the schoolmaster-poet of Stradone. Thomas Brady of Cootehill (1752–1827) rose to general's rank in the Austrian army and was made a baron.
The range carries the Brady family crest on the Irish National Tartan across a woven cotton blanket, a printed throw, a garden flag, ceramic and framed Christmas ornaments, cork coasters and an accent mug, with a crest T-shirt in Irish Green or Black and a novelty license plate set over the Irish flag. MacBrady families have their own woven blanket, mug and House of MacBrady garden flag.
The chiefs, bishops and poets of Cúil Bhríghde are all in our Brady Irish surname history.
