Michael Collins

[Galician]

As someone who has made a study of Irish names, I find it interesting that both Éamon de Valera and Éamonn Ceannt chose the form Éamon(n) as the Irish form of their name. Éamon(n) is the Irish form of Edmund, while Éadbhárd is the actual Irish form of Edward. (Their real names.) Perhaps they felt, in the first decade of the 20th Century, that 'Edward' in any form was too "British' of a name.

Now I'm confused. There was a teacher in my high school with tthat name, and always told us that it was Irish for David. Have I remembered wrong?