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[french frank]

we learned how he pronounced Ciaran - which was Keerawn, with the emphasis on the second syllable.

Now that could sound almost French in being stressed on the second syllable, pronounced as a 'pure' vowel, not swallowed up as in English. Almost French õ .

[oddoneout]

The few times I heard the name of the storm pronounced, only once was it 'correct', and that was by a BBC weatherman on the BBC News. In NI BBC News I more often heard Keeren or Keern, which was my own pronunciation, and it was spelt with a K, which does not exist in Irish. When a newcomer from the Republic spelled his name with a C, we learned how he pronounced Ciaran - which was Keerawn, with the emphasis on the second syllable.

I don't know how to do accents, so the fada (long) over the second 'a' of Ciaran is missing.

The Scots version doesn't have the accent when written, but I don't know if the pronunciation is the same in terms of stress/long vowel but I would assume it's likely to be.