It's rent week and Mr. Sullivan comes in with his check. We chat for a spell and when he leaves The Irishman hustles into my office.
Irish: Do you know the origin of Sullivan?
me: English, British I think, I knew a Sullivan from England.
Irish: Naaa, it's Gaelic.
Irish knows all about this. He speaks Gaelic.
me: You don't say?
Irish: Yes, and wait till I tell you whot it means.
me: I can't wait.
Irish: The bastard son of a one eyed man!
me: WHAT?
Irish: Yes, it does, Sulle means eye and van means one. Bastard son of a one eyed man!
me: So how do you know it's a illegitimate child?
Iris: Ahh well, the Mc's, they were the legitimate children, the O's were the illegitimate children. O'Sullivan.
me: But it's not O'Sullivan, it's just Sullivan.
Irish: AAHH well it used to be O'Sullivan, somewhere down the line they dropped the O.
So there you have it.
Bastard child of a one eyed man!
You learn something new every day.
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