Thank you all so much! I will go with"Laoch Bídeach". Thank you also for the advice. I will absolutely print the tattoo artist out an enlarged picture (and watch him like a hawk!). I actually wanted to have it done in the Gaelic font and am thinking of going with the traditional style. Can you recommend a reliable website for me to use? I tried this one http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/fontwriter/.

You all are the best! Thank you!!!

Spanky

In the traditional font "h" wasn't used as it is now. Today the "h" is used to represent the softening of consonants (lenition/ séimhiú), its not really a stand-alone consonant. In the traditional Gaelic font this softening/ séimhiú was instead represented as a ponc or a dot above the consonant. What you are given in your example is a mixture of the traditional and the modern.

This is the more traditional style font:

Laoċ Bídeaċ

Cian

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Thank you! I have learned so much from all of you and it sounds like I'm ready to get my tattoo. I hope to visit Ireland someday to see where my family came from (Wexford). If everyone is as warm and helpful as you all have been, I know it will be a trip of a lifetime!