Irish names you're probably saying wrong and how to pronounce them
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When I was in school, Irish was taught in a very academic way: the focus was on reading and writing – as opposed to listening or speaking. As a result, most people of my generation don’t actually speak it and only understand a “cúpla focail”. We only learned how to pronounce the words in order to read them correctly (it was only after I left school that I learned that both spelling and the alphabet had been simplified in the mid-twentieth century).
Thankfully, in the decades since then, there’s a lot more emphasis on spoken and colloquial Irish. On Patrick’s Day, I attended a music festival where one stage was all young Irish musicians speaking and performing in Irish, with a lot of the audience understanding what they were saying.
If you have a spare 13 minutes, I’d recommend watching the charming short film, “Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom” about a Chinese man who learns Irish before coming to Ireland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqYtG9BNhfM
Since I’d never heard anyone pronounce a Gaelic word as a youngin, I thought it was pronounced “Proyn-she-uhs”. But I think I read somewhere its the Gaelic form of Pontius, as in Pontius Pilot, and is actually pronounced “Prawn-she-is’.
Your first stab at pronunciation wasn’t far off. You’d get away with “uhs” as the final syllable. I’d also say that the first “o” is pronounced similar to the first syllable in the English word, “onion” (as opposed to an “aw” sound).
(much of English is actually phonetic as well, except there's no marker for whether the word is using the Anglo-Saxon scheme, the Germanic one, the Nordic one, Greek, Latin, or some combination of those within a word e.g. "television". Or absolute nonsense like someone using the Greek scheme for Gaelic resulting in "ptarmigan")
Perhaps, I should now take the time to reverse engineer it.