My first name is the Irish (Gaelic) form of Michael and rhymes, as my
father-in-law noted, with UHaul: i.e., meeHAUL.  (The "c" is lenited
--sounded like a simple, aspirated "h" with no guttural color--and this is
indicated by the dot that should appear over the letter, but I haven't
been able to figure out how to do that in HTML yet.  The alternative
spelling would substitute a "ch" for the dotted "c", but this makes the
name look too much like Michael, to which I usually don't answer.)<P>

I prefer the accent on the second syllable--but many native speakers in
fact accent it on the first.<P>

My family name is an Anglicization of the Irish O'Beach&aacute;in (or, as
some family members would have it, O'Mach&aacute;in) and is found for the
most part in West Clare.  My father's family is from Lahinch, just 
down the road from Ballyvaughan (= the town of the Vaughans). <p>

Locals there pronounce the family name disyllablically: VAW+hun.  (The
second syllable is almost swallowed.)  Elsewhere, the monosyllabic form (in
common with the Welsh Vaughans, no relations) is favored: VAWN.<P>