Ok, here it goes, I'm about 75% irish, but my dad is german, yet, all the people in my family, including the Irish, have DARK DARK brown eyes, does that mean they're inpure irish, because I thought Irish people only had blue eyes.
sorry to post such a personal topic, but i got to know.
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not a stuiped question i am living in ireland myself and all my mothers family are all fair red heads with blue eyes and all my fathers family all have black hair and browns eyes like i have 2 sons and 1 has black hair and brown eyes and the other is fair and blue eyes cosideren me and my wife both half black bron hair and blue eyes bit of a stuiped remark about be inpure i dont know about irish been born aborad but in ireland we think of ourself irish not white by race just wondren is it the same for the irish born aboard ?
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They are considered black irish and date back long ago to when the romans arrived in Ireland. And you are still considered Irish if you have dark features :-p. Not everyone has to be a ging
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the romans never set foot in ireland just to clare up the brown eye thing plate 9 & 10 of this link will explane a lot
http://med1nuc11.dfc.unifi.it/linnets/troe/texts/index.htm
its a think of black hair and blues that realy what defines the irish for ie spainish itilans etc..
the black irish is an american thing who claim to have descent from spainsh armada but The term has also been used to refer to the offspring of Irish and African slaves in the Caribbean, and many Irish surnames can still be found in the region. Montserrat is the Caribbean island with the greatest levels of Irish heritage as it was forcibly settled by the English crown using Irish slaves. These Irish slaves were eventually replaced by West African slaves who took on the names and surnames of the prior inhabitants, much as African slaves in the United States took on the names of their owners.
However, no distinct population group of "Black Irish" exists or ever existed. The myth of the Black Irish was coined in America to explain the existence of Irish people whose appearance did not conform to stereotypical images of what Irish people look like.
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Henry, do you live in a neighbourhood with an Irish community? If you do you'll know that Irish people have black hair, red hair, blonde hair, grey hair, brown hair and the same goes for their eyes. There's no such thing as 'impure Irish' just because your eyes aren't blue! I have red hair and my sister has jet black hair! My eyes are brown, her eyes are blue. You're worrying about a myth that has no real relevance to what your heritage is.
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alright alright, I guess I was just worried about it a little too much when I started noticing all the blue-eyed Irish out there, I guess they can look any way huh?
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