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Caitlín (Kingston) Brugha (1879 - 1959)
Born Kathleen Kingston , in Birr, County Offaly, she married Irish revolutionary Cathal Brugha in 1912. Her husband died in 1922 during the Irish Civil War and she was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Sinn...
Cathal Brugha (1874 - 1922)
Cathal Brugha was an Irish nationalist and revolutionary. He was second in command during the Easter Rising of 1916, where he was first wounded. He served as Chief of Staff for IRA (1917-1919), was the...
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Ruairí Brugha (1917 - 2006)
Ruairí Brugha was an Irish Republican and IRA volunteer who became a Fianna Fáil politician, serving as a Teachta Dála (TD), senator, and Member of the European Parliament (MEP).He was born in Dublin, ...
Brenda Brugha (deceased)
Sources==* Cillin, Micheal O. "Cathal Brugha 1874-1922." Dublin Historical Record 38, no. 4 (1985): 141-49. (accessed 30 June 2019).
Cathal Terence Brugha (deceased)

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About the Brugha surname

Brugha (IPA Irish pronunciation: bˠɾˠuː) is a modern Irish surname, created c. 1899 by Irish revolutionary Cathal Brugha. It is a Gaelicization of Brugha's birth name, Burgess, which was itself Anglicized from either the Irish "An Bhuiríos" or the Norman French "Buirgheis."

Brugha's direct male ancestors were Huguenots from Picardy who went first to Cornwall and then Borris, County Carlow. It is unclear whether the village adopted its name from the people, the people from the village, or separately from unrelated eytmologies.

Today, Brugha is also used as a Gaelicization for Burrows, per Foras na Gaeilge, and is sometimes seen as de Brugha. Due to this, Warfield and Daly's contention that only Cathal Brugha's descendants use the name seems unlikely.

Sources

Mathews, Joe. "The Ancestry of Cathal Brugha and the Burgess Family."
Ó Dochartaigh, Tomás. Cathal Brugha: a shaol is a thréithe. 1969.
Quinn, James. "Brugha, Cathal." Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dublin: National Archives of Ireland, 2009.
Warfield, Derek and Raymond Daly. Celtic & Ireland in Song and Story. 2012.
Woulfe, Rev. Patrick. Irish Names and Surnames. 1923.

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