I note that Lughaidh's real name in Loig -right? Or is it Louis in French and only turned into Loig for Breton purposes?

PUL wrote a book (actually a modernisation of the Irish of an earlier work): Lughaidh Mac Con.

I am wondering if this name is /lui:/ or /luigʹ/? or both?

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I note that Lughaidh's real name in Loig -right? Or is it Louis in French and only turned into Loig for Breton purposes?

Shouldn't you just ask this to me in an e-mail? :-)
My first name is Loïc - a Breton name in its French spelling ; the Breton spelling is Loig (my parents don't speak Breton and anyway when I was born it wasn't common to give Breton names with their Breton spelling - once it was even forbidden to give Breton names). Loïc/Loig is a diminutive of Loeiz which is the Breton version of Louis. And since the Irish equivalent of Louis/Lewis is Lughaidh, I use it in Irish.

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I am wondering if this name is /lui:/ or /luigʹ/? or both?

In Donegal it is pronounced /Lui:/ ; I guess it is /luig'/ in Munster.

I see. Maybe it was too personal a question, Lughaidh. I'm sorry about that. I ordered a copy of the book Lughaidh mac Con by PUL last night!

It wasn't too personal, anyway there's a link to my website in my signature so my real first name isn't a secret :)

It's hard to keep track of all of Lughaidhs different names. LOL.