Comments on: Workout Song: Ashley MacIsaac – Sleepy Maggie

By: ellie

ellie — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:12:10 +0000

Im Irish born but grew up in Australia, I went to school with 4 male and 1 female ashleys

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:31:14 +0000

First, I love your blog. I am a fellow fat girl that has been battling it, and find it inspiring to see someone who is real, and comfortable in her skin (relatively most of the time) even though that skin is over a bunch of fat. You are truly beautiful.

Second, Sleepy Maggie is such a completely awesome song. I thought the rest of the world had mostly forgotten that gem. Thanks for putting it back out there.

Sending some Big Texas Love,

Melanie

By: Motivation

Motivation — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:12:59 +0000

I am Irish, so I know our Irish, though Scots Gaelic is similar but a bit different. Very nice song I have to say, having followed the link!

And I would probably have thought that Ashley was a girls name too.

By: KalinasB

KalinasB — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:56:52 +0000

Thank you for interesting blog

By: kat

kat — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:23:33 +0000

My son’t name is Ashley. There’s an actor called ashley hamliton and a singer from the group o-town called ashley.

By: PastaQueen

PastaQueen — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:03:40 +0000

Man, my readership is so international! Thanks for all the info guys. You’re better than google.

By: Mon

Mon — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:29:36 +0000

since I live in the province that Ashley MacIsaac is from I thought I’d let you know whose singing in the song.

The fiddler is Ashley MacIsaac but the womans voice you here is Mary Jane Lamond – a celtic singer.

Wonderful song none the less, enjoy

By: Fid

Fid — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:48:45 +0000

I am Irish, so I know our Irish, though Scots Gaelic is similar but a bit different. Very nice song I have to say, having followed the link!

And I would probably have thought that Ashley was a girls name too.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:16:26 +0000

Tracy, Shirley, Beverley, Vivian (and Lee), Leslie, Lindsay (another Scottish one)…

Yup, you’re right. (I have come across all of these on boys, either in fiction or real life).

I can think of only one trend-bucker – Christian, which used to be quite a common girl’s name in England and Scotland from mediaeval times on.

By: PastaQueen

PastaQueen — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:36:44 +0000

Kirsten, that reminds me of a chapter in a book called “Freakonomics” which talks about the trends in naming kids over the years. I believe it said that boys names will commonly cross over to be girl names (Ashley, Leslie, Jamie, etc) but girl names hardly ever become boy names. So, I guess Ashley probably started out as a boy’s name and migrated into a female name.

Scarlett O’Hara’s crush in “Gone with the Wind” is indeed Ashley. I think I consider it a girl name because all the Ashley’s I’ve met are girls.