An Irish name, also the tragic heroine from Irish mythology whose love affair with Naoise was doomed to end in death.
From Irish 'Derdriu,' likely meaning 'daughter' or possibly 'one who rages'; the character appears in medieval Irish sagas where her beauty causes wars.
Deirdre's myth is one of the oldest love stories in European literature—pre-dating Romeo and Juliet by over a thousand years—and it shows that tragic romance has been humanity's favorite story type for ages.
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