They are a mix of African and Irish (and indigenous/indian too, I'm sure), exactly like me! Irishman Although dark hair is the most common hue in Ireland, for whatever reason, many individuals consider the Irish to be generally rufous or blond. I think this article mixes the term Irish moor which refers to micks like me that have dark curly hair which supposedly came from moorish refugees that were shipwrecked in Ireland after the storm that ran into the Spanish Armada and black Irish that has more than one connotation. Those minority characteristics probably stem from Scandinavian settlement of Ireland during late antiquity/the early middle ages. “The only heritage I ever had was Irish heritage.” Maher is aware of her other ancestry, “but it is not important at the moment for me”, she says. By the way, I have heard this black-haired, PALE, blue-eyed type as "Black Irish", also. 39. Eventually Ireland was cut off by the sea and those dna types have remained there pretty much unchanged for 8000 years,especially in the West where there was less later admixture. This is a concept that would not have been articulated or classified as it is now. The Irish don't have dark skin. This page is pointless, ill informed and unnecessary. That's not to say that the Irish did not have lighter hair before the Viking and Saxon invasions, but that these invasions had a large influence in introducing these phenotypes into the Irish Celtic population, so much so they became a stereotype. I'd imagine it would be quite difficult for someone to trace their ancestory unbroken back to the start of human presence in an area, everyone is a mix of everyone else." I have natuarally cheastnut hair and hazel eyes. Please enter your email address so we can send you a link to reset your password. In the preface to the publication (vii) in 1955, Earnest Hooton, in deflecting criticism even before publication, makes the point "one does not come back to something written a decade previously and find it satisfactory". They say that the black irish were a mix of Spanish and Irish blood from when the Spanish Armada crashed on the Western seabord of Ireland in 1588. What a mutt! For those who are interested, here are the deleted sections: With Wiki, you can at least have a say and try to make the information which is out there as accurate as possible. The X haplotype also appears even among the Sioux and Iroquois Indians of North America.Geneticists believe that the X haplotype originated about 15,000 years ago somewhere between the Caucasus Mountains and Southern Siberia, around lake Baikal. "The name Gallagher is "O Gallchobhair" which translates as "foreign help." This is no myth. Nevertheless, more research needs to still needs to be done before we can be positively certain..My own immediate Irish ancestors were fair-haired and blue-eyed but I was told that some others were the so-called "Black Irish" too, especially the Corrigan family from County Meath (Contae na Mí).This is controversial. There is a close dna match in both male and female lines with the Basques of Spain.
Also, I'd like to add that lighter hair/lighter eyes is just a stereotype.

The Irish side of my family, the Dugans all have black hair, brown eyes and darker skin. One question, though. Naturally if the intermarried with people of darker pigmentation, many would have taken that pigmentation as the darker dominates.The Normans dominated England for a few centuries and French was the court language of England. I have read before that in West Ireland (Galway Bay) a Spanish seaport was built there in the Sixteen or seventeen hundreds, is this true? Cork was nice however I lived in west Cork where there weren’t a lot of black people. Their skin is light, and often freckled. One friend has Black Irish in her background, but so far, she has batted zero in finding out anything about them ... she was very happy to see your article. "Law Case, Master Samuel Symonds against Irish slaves" (5) "The term Blackfeet was often shortened to Black Irish, meaning Irish that were free thinkers and did not adhere to the strict Catholic v. Protestant didactic." Back during the 19th century in America, a lot of the Irish immigrants who came over here during the Great Potato Famine found husbands and wives in the Native American population.
As more than one editor has noted above, in its present state it is a mess.


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