We are black Irish. The woman who measured the frames and lenses told me I have brown eyes and green eyes. The Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century saw the arrival of English and Scottish colonists in Ulster after the Flight of the Earls. Irish people who have dark hair, brown eyes and dark complexions are often referred to as Black Irish. Irish people come from near Armenia. said, "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone.". The Normans were invited into Ireland by Dermot McMurrough and were led by the famous Strongbow. All I have is family oral history and a very old family Bible. Like a lot of native Irish, he seemed less Irish than the American Also, everyone of every color faces some degree of racism in their lifetime (unless they're living underground from birth, but that's unlikely). The Irish genes definitely showed mom's strawberry blond hair and blue eyes. As with the Vikings, these were viewed as a people of "dark intentions" who ultimately colonized much of the Eastern part of the country and several larger towns. Opinions vary in regard to what is perceived as the usual physical characteristics of the so-called Black Irish: e.g., dark hair, brown eyes and medium skin tone; or dark hair, blue or green eyes and fair skin tone. The Irish water spaniel is a medium-size sporting dog breed from Ireland that has a curly, medium-length coat that only minimally sheds. Leprechaun lawn Although the skull is similar to a modern human head, it has a larger cranium, is more robust and has larger molars. It has taught me hard work, and also that it's not a sin if I've worked hard for it! me too. Ireland mesmerized by rare Northern Lights display. The Scotland's DNA project, led by Edinburgh University's Dr Jim Wilson, has tested almost 1,000 Scots in the last four months to determine the genetic roots of people in the country. My mom is too, but she dies her hair. o' the Morning," with Bing Crosby; and Walt Disney's "Darby O'Gill and i have heard that the Irish, Scottish & Manx are the Lost Tribe Of Judah that settled in the UK thousands of years ago, the Celts are the Tribe of Judah from Israel? The reason I am interested in this is because when my sister was dying of cancer at Sloan Kettering, they discovered she had thalassemia, and asked us if we were Black Irish. The local population also referred to the invaders as dark and tall. It is, in fact, a big point of study in UCD. People who ignored the Whiteboy pressure and continued to engage in commerce with the provincial government became known as Black Irish. Anyway all of my cousins have dark brown eyes, dark hair, pale skin tone, and short. These were the most congenial truths of his religion. and crested rings belonging to the American Irish. With all respect, the term Black Irish is an American invention. Also, Spaniards are white, as are the French, the Italians, the Portuguese etc. i am anon24687. Why is no one discussing the Moors who ruled Ireland for years. Philip Larkin called "shallow, violent eyes." seemed a cover, a veneer like the leather stretched around a blackjack. I'm Secondary Certified in History among other things too. . My dad was dark, as dark brown wood year round. My point is the term black Irish is old; it's another way for separating a type of people. i have been told a couple times that i am dark skinned like tanned i suppose and my father's family are descendants of Ireland and Britain and my mother's are of Ireland Scotland Germany and Britain and my mom seems to think i could have black Irish in me because i am dark all year round, is this possible? Germans do have distinctive facial features. Women's lips are at their most fleshy, and men's facial hair are at their strongest; dark-haired men often have a shadow around the jaw even when they're shaved. For all of you who posted your family was referred to as being black Irish, look what they did for a living. I'm more English culturally, though several generations from which I was directly descended were Irish. Early black and white (Irish) slaves in America, Barbados, Montserrat and other colonies mixed sexually and culturally. i have a spanish last name as well. Whether or not this was an actual invasion or rather a more gradual migration and assimilation of their culture by the native Irish is open to conjecture, but there is sufficient evidence to suggest that this latter explanation is more likely. They turned light later. I had always thought Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion) of the punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees was Irish but, according to her Wikipedia bio, she is Belgian Walloon and English. They are mostly stout and hardy, dark haired, dark skinned and dark-eyed. ones seem to have a wisdom -- they've seen the worst the world can dish I would love to see all your photos, as i could read your face (Antonio}. The features are chiseled and angular. No one can be politically correct, but that doesn't mean they're trying to offend anyone. I know this from when I was in school and the British-Irish kids would tease the minority of non-British Irish kids about being "black". I'm not saying its not a racial thing, but my family is white and from Ireland, and yet both sides of my family moved to get away from the problems going on at the time in Ireland. In the United States, for example, the people identified as African Americans do not share a common set of physical characteristics. The Irish came to the South and fit right in. Leprechaun: Wide, with no upper lip at all, but a long, full lower Nationality is geographical not racial. There were Black Kings of Ireland. Do you see where I'm getting at, where the Irish became "the black irish"? I think it's attractive. my mama always told me that the black irish (people from ireland, or people with irish ancestry, who had dark hair, dark eyes, and often darker skin as well) were the result of dna passed down by the roman soldiers who invaded the british isles. Consequently, the blonds in northern Europe took longer to develop than the mutant redheads (I say this with tongue in cheek, being of the red persuation myself, lol). (People like myself, who are of British heritage, obviously have dark hair, but that's not the point.) Although most people in the modern-day Republic of Ireland can barely notice the difference among Caucasian Irish people based on their appearance, most foreigners especially Americans have a perception of how the Irish people look: Blond or red hair, freckled appearance on sunburns, blue or green eyes, and an averagely tall frame. The history speaks for itself. Brooklyn 1953, go figure! Black Irish has nothing to do with Africa or an African connection. It's not due to something that happened 2,500 years ago with Celts." Her family bible goes back to medieval times. Another possibility is that poor immigrants from Ireland during the Great Famine of the late 1840s were called this term in their new country. Just to re: 24687's Schizophrenia comment, it is actually true. i will check occasionally 4 if any1 has answered. You get the Black Irish is a term synonymous with a dark-haired phenotype exhibited by certain individuals native to or descended from Ireland. One has dark hair, olive skin and dark brown eyes. -Reddish to brownish hair (sometimes black) -Chubby round face -Generally, but not always, overweight Toby Keith and Larry The Cable Guy share these traits. Genetics has moved on from this. ("Defeat of the Spanish Armada", painted by Philip James de Loutherbourg). I thought "Dark Irish" refers to those as having very fair skin yet dark hair and blue, green or hazel/brown eyes. My family is from Cork and the majority fall into this category. My bloodline goes back at least a 900 years in that country I like to call Hibernia. Let's learn some Irish words for facial features and learn how to pronounce them. . Myth mixes with truth, and emigration from as far as the Indian sub-continent, over hundreds of years. Oddly, my high school history teacher (US) informed my classmates and me that "black Irish" refers to the color of the dark soil where they lived. Which, if you think about all these factors working together, would result in the dark Irish. His YDNA results go all the way East, into Russia. My mother was not identified as Black, colored or African American on her birth certificate, although both of her parents are clearly of African descent, though not 100 percent. i just want to say that i have black irish on my dad's side and my moms side is cherokee indian. her skin has a beige tint, so she doesn't look pale, and she has brown eyes. His grandmother was born in West Cork and also called herself "Black Irish." It has been proven that the Irish are genetically different from all other ethnic groups in western Europe, but the Irish people are genetically traced to the Basque people of southern France and northeastern Spain. The face shape, eye color, complexion, etc., depending on their genetics and region. Along the way they mixed with black blood. An Alpine from the Spreewald, of German, not Wendish, origin. Share your favorite stories with other history buffs in the IrishCentral History Facebook group. What Are Irish People Like? Some Irish call themselves natives in reference to the fact that they owned Ireland before their people were forced to "speak English or be black". . R they really known for insanity? Welsh people migrated to America beginning in the 17th . Were Irelands Viking invaders high on hallucinogenic herbal tea? "Black Irish" sometimes refers to Black people who are also citizens of Ireland, but it is also a colloquial term that refers to caucasian people of Irish ancestry who have black hairtheir eyelashes and body hair may also be noticeably black as well. @152949: Yes, I'd be afraid to wear it too! King Niall, Shane the Proud, Just to put my two cents in on black Irish, there are too many theories. They were the northern Irish who had dark features, and when they came to refuge in other places like Europe and America, the Irish who were already living there wanted to distinguish themselves from the starving, dark-featured people by calling them Black. After reading about black irish I believe I may be black irish. I have three brothers, two with dark hair, fair skin and blue eyes and one with red hair, blue eyes and freckled pale skin. The Irish drink tea on a daily basis, it's what gets us out of bed in the morning. They tended to avoid the census takers, but when confronted, rather than being shipped off to Indian Territory (Oklahoma, at the time), they claimed to be "Black Irish.". of Hibernians doing slow intense prowls over the television cables, the thinking at the time was that these people were not capable of self government. One sister has olive skin and green eyes. Stubborn, a born fighter, violent, physical, passionate. My Dad had black hair and blue eyes, thick curly hair as I did. 6. Ireland has had many visitors, so get off your eugenic high horse. Some "Black Irish" are of Irish-African descent, tracing their ancestry back to the slave trade. Diane has a B.A. My dad's family is originally from northern Ireland, and he has the typical red hair, freckles, and pale skin. Life and Luxury (author) from South Beach, FL on January 11, 2020: It is good that you know your family history, Joffre! The term is commonly used to describe people of Irish origin who have dark features, black hair, a dark complexion and dark eyes. FIG. I'm glad a guy in a similar topic showed me this post. The Beautiful Siouxsie Sioux. Some historiansbelievethat these Spaniards gave rise to the BlackIrish offspring. Anyone of mixed race calling themselves "Black Irish" is ill-informed. Celtic just means non-Greek. The Irish do blue eyes very well. People from Anglesey are on average taller and have darker skin than those from the rest of Wales though. John O'Hara: "Hard-drinking, quick to take offense, carrying a large Black hair can be found in almost every European people, so these specific features are not exclusive to the Irish in Europe. Although it is impossible to work out the skin color of the prehistoric hunter, it is likely to have been darker than modern white Europeans. you are all victims of the anglo-american public school scheme that reconstructed history and told you who you are. are full of tweed-capped schemers with crooked grins, and wisdom This was in reference to their dark and evil souls as the locals perceived them. Can you tell ethnicity by facial features? how cool is that haha. [deleted] 8 yr. ago. Much has been written on Irishness, much of it derogatory. However, with regards to those who believe it was the survivors from the spanish armada who washed up on the beaches of ireland, this is completely incorrect as most of the survivors where slaughtered or taken to england for ransom and of those who managed to escape with their lives were so few that they would not have been able to make such a massive difference to irish DNA, especially in the space of a few hundred years. Georgia O'Keeffe had a I will continue to look more into this. him suggested that through an act of will he may have given up watching It depends on my mood. Pink, round, breathless faces. Nothing Iberian about it. Since the majority (65%) of Irish people have brown hair (only 15% have black hair, and almost all of them are fair-skinned and blue or green-eyed), classifying this subgroup with the term "black Irish" made them instantly distinguishable. impetuous, impatient, and improvident, instinctively brave, I would have to say out of all the people in the world, the irish have the most mysterious eyes ever -- as if they are looking into your soul. All the people on here are asking perfectly natural questions. (1856). All the women in my family fall under this description. The dense coat is waterproof, an ideal trait for this expert swimmer and water retriever. I am from Ireland. Some features of the irish look asian to me, not african. To 24687, I think that is only in his family, if it's true at all. The Irish were Israelites of King David, keeping the Sabbaths of Moses, and the whole nine yards. It is possible that the term "Black Irish" may have referred to some of these immigrant groups as a way of distinguishing them from the "Gaels," the people of ultimately Celtic origin. Two weeks ago, I had my eyes checked and got new glasses. 1. Ireland is an island that has been invaded throughout history, and there are thousands of people from several countries who moved there, and for whatever reason marry and have children. My great-great grandfather, from County Tipperary, was one of them. Black Irish? We are all blonde haired and brown, a few reds, with all types of eye color. New culture, new names. You don't hear of wealthy people moving to a new country for a better life and say Im black Irish. People on the west coast of Ireland are almost genetically identical to people in the Basque region. the extreme poverty that's like extreme old age -- it makes whoever I'm just learning about my background and -- wow. I just recently found my father and found out that we are everything under the sun!! There is variety in t. I am Irish. of a great movie, "The Commitments," in which a group of young people I agree with te Scythian theory of it's origins(Black Irish) and have always noted the similarity with some peoples from what was souther states in Russia/caspian sea regions, in as much as i would go to talk to them thinking they were my people/ somehow family. If you look at Ireland you will notice that people on the east coast, where most of the invasions landed, are paler than the people in the west, who by and large escaped the worst of the invasions by foreign settlers. This finding gives the Armada Myth credibility. She is very tanned, dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. Paul Ryan: Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Considering that, we can categorize the looks into two groups. but if you start to rise up they knock you down," says Lorna Hovell, thoughtlessly generous, quick to resent and forgive offenses, to form The Moors were there. She used to tell me that part of her family was "black Irish". -- George Bernard Shaw. The last names were traditional Irish names(fairly common). . Whose Irish are the real Irish? make you worry they know something you don't. The mutation that caused red hair is known as the MC1r variant, and first occurred between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago. If you go to Irish speaking communities, you will see a significant number of the population with dark features. Both are red headed and fair skinned. May the wind be always at your back, the sun shine warm upon . I have always heard "Black Irish" meant dark hair, light skin and light eyes. I hope this helps. I think I read somewhere that this was because of Irish people and the Moors integrated. massive, and whiskey-loving. My father was scotch Irish, flaming red hair and freckles and brown eyes. It remains, therefore, a descriptive term used for many purposes, rather than a reference to an actual class of people who may have survived the centuries. We're all originally from Africa. I was a blond baby, which gradually turned to blue-black hair and thick. ", A Britisher at Adams's press conference at the Capital Hilton I met a lady once who had lived in Wales and at first she said, "you look Latino," then she had another look and said i look just like the "Kale" -- Welsh gypsies. Some readers, writing below, with typical Black Irish coloring have had genetic testing done to confirm that they have Spanish, Portuguese, and Canary Island heritage. The whole red hair and freckles thing is a myth. Scots-Irish / Scotch-Irish Americans . Scots, even those of Ulster, are largely Scandinavian and Celtic. In my humble opinion, no matter where we're born and raised, we are still who we are. The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. When they are sad or angry, the dark (black) side of life takes over. History has become hijacked by political bandits with a motive. Among the older ones, The romans also never made it on to the island of Ireland because the Irish were considered to be too rough and wild to be civilized and were considered to not be worth the effort it would take the romans to civilise them. Enya, Paul Ryan, Lara Flynn Boyle, Peter Gallagher, Rob James Collier, and Jennifer Connelly all have Irish ancestry, and all four of them would be called black Irish in the colloquial sense. One study found that men rated baby-like features including "large eyes, small nose, and small chin" as most attractive. Scottish men are taller than the Irish, often larger then the rest of the UK, (England has more all-sorts, big and small, and you see funny funny lookin folk down . The Irish tip is one of the most wanted, even in L.A." The characteristically "Irish". baby -- you can almost smell the boiled food and the candles. It is an island and has been invaded several times throughout its history, and all speak of the land being occupied. But all my brothers and me took after him and my dad's sisters. They are often medium to tall in height, and finely boned, almost gracile. My great grand mother was Dutch, her family was called black Dutch, because they worked for a living. Black Dutch was also used. Theobald Mathew in the New York Tribune, on I am 100 percent Irish American with possibly 1/8 Belfast Orangewoman blood. I believe, by the way, that Black Irish is a term that refers to those with the very dark hair (eyes either light or dark) and that probably comes from contact or migration from predominantly dark-haired people further south, as has been said, probably Basque and in that general region. There is evidence that a small percentage of prehistoric people that lived in present-day Spain and Portugal (the Iberian Peninsula) migrated to present-day Ireland. the world. In Gaelic, the Irish native language, the word for black (or dark) is 'dubh', and foreigner is 'gall'. There is a greater range of skin colours, hair colours and textures, facial features, body . The people of Ireland, SW England and parts of Wales have a very strong similarity with Iberia from 7,000 to 15,000 years ago. She liked to tell us that we were touched by fairies. but there is also indian on my dad's side as well. I have very light color eyes that turn gray, orange, green and hazel. my grandmother and grandfather were indians and i'm a country girl from Tennessee. I have also seen a guy here in Australia who was Welsh, but definitely looked very Aboriginal Australian. I don't appreciate your tone either. And though the majority have the blue genes as a dominate gene, we all still carry the brown eyed gene. Some people believe that the word "black," in this case, refers to the "dark" intentions of groups of people who invaded Ireland, so their descendants might be referred to as Black Irish. @Anon109506: The Irish experience you spoke of was more common in the northeastern U.S. Many of the men were killed in the wrecks, and many of the survivors were put to death by Irish soldiers. The term "Black Irish" is used almost exclusively outside of Ireland in reference to certain groups of people, although there is little agreement over the people to whom it applies and why. Although many Irish descendants are particularly pale, they do have pronounced Africoid facial features, as well as dark brown eyes, and dark brown hair that is sort-of kinky . anyway my skin is extremely pale, cause I tend to burn, so sunscreen, sunscreen, sunscreen. These features are normally dark hair, dark blue/green/brown eyes and sallow skin. It speaks of a bloody conflict between the Fir Bolg (belly men, stout, dark haired and dark skinned) who were the original inhabitants of the land and the Tuatha De Danaan (fair skinned, thin and tall people from Europe). These faces give away precisely nothing. The real, original Irish are all dark haired and dark featured. And I should know because our family is Black Irish. As odd as it may seem, my g-g-grandfather was dead set against slavery and fought for the Union in the Civil War. I have been the butt of a "black irish" slur, and have been referred to by my English ex as a "bloody native". Many of these people live on Barbados and Montserrat. Blacks ruled Scotland for many years. lol. Now the terms are redneck, hillbilly, yank, you get the idea. My cousin is a psychologist. My dad was almost pure German, so I'm not losing any sleep over a few ancient branches of my mother's family tree, in Ireland, and Scotland. My Mom, one sister, and one brother are all dark skinned, with dark hair, light green/hazel eyes, out of a family of 8 children. . In 1588, the Spanish King Felipe II attempted to attack the Protestant heretics of England in a bid to restore Catholicism and also as a gesture of solidarity with the oppressed Irish Catholics. The Celtics had black hair and therefore are the true Irish. They Not only that, but her band name is very Irish-sounding (banshee, anyone?) Everyone thinks they are mainly red heads, which isn't true. Mom's accent changed late in life. The Irish potato famine was also a time of many deaths due to a disease known as Black Fever. little malicious, of quick intelligence and wit, and has an Irish gift It was a derogatory term used to classify these people. The term is commonly used to describe people of Irish origin who have dark features, black hair, a dark complexion and dark eyes. Irish people who have dark hair, brown eyes and dark complexions are often referred to as Black Irish. Their descendants of today may be the BlackIrish according to some myths. My mother particularly looked like an african baby. Other Celtic friends have told me they also know of the genetic link between Aboriginal Australians and "original Celtic peoples.". the playboy, yet at the playboy he incessantly mocks. Like in the time of Martin Luther King Jr. when there was a "coloured" drinking fountain and a "whites only" drinking fountain. . Our father has dark brown hair and blue eyes and also very fair, almost pinkish, skin. 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