 Ireland, Dublin and walking? |
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My mother's father was Irish however not married to my grandmother and died accidentally in Australia soon after my mother was born.
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 Do they still have mummers night in the small townes in Ireland? |
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i seen them in the 50s i might be saying it wrong,people dress up with masks on and go to peoples houses play music and be impish,and you dont ... |
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 Bono why did ya kick that poor bin in Dublin city and dose it hurt when Dublin people call you bino? |
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yep he did kick a bin last year when out on the town made front page of all the papers and bino is his new name here on the north side but the south siders are to ... |
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 Aiport to City Centre? |
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 Where is the best place to live in Ireland? |
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I want there to be a town to go shopping in.
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 Do people with irish and british accents think that american accents are cool? |
I love british and irish accents...and i am american...do they like american accents?
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ha films always have ireland in de old days , they go to the really old towns with all the sheep lol ......... and they get the actors to do a really old irish accent that are long gone lol
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 What do you think about HOWTH(dublin)? |
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 Does my wife need a visa to visit Eire? |
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 What's a blarney stone and whats the big deal about those things? |
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 Terrorism in ireland? |
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 How are or would Muslim/Arabvisitors be treated in Ireland? |
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 Job opportunity in Ireland? |
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No Muy Bien! |
I'm wondering where the term 'Black Irish' came from? |
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Yes, it is the dark-haired brown-eyed Irish, the descendants of Spanish, Portuguese and Moroccan merchants and sailors in Ireland. There was a lot of trade between Ireland and these countries during the middle ages, and many of them had houses in Ireland, mainly the west.
That said, if you throw a bit of redhead into the mix, you might have two black Irish getting together, making babies, and they produce a little redhead child. Very common in Irish families to have at least one redhead in a generation, regardless of the parents' colouring. |
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i just heard a friend of mine refer to himself as that this past weekend? he said it was the dark haired brown eyed irish... but we were also in canada for a wedding so that could have been a little booze talking. either way i thought it was pretty funny |
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it refers to them having black hair and dark features, not the skin color. |
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Oddly enough less than 3% of the Irish have black hair and less than 1% have brown eyes,most being in Ulster.Even redheads outnumber them at 10%
A lesser-known point of origin refers to the potato famine of 1845-1851, which turned the blighted potatoes 'black' and as a result drove thousands of Irish to America's shores.
The term has also been used to denote the offspring of Irish laborers and African slaves in the Caribbean. Montserrat, by far, experienced the highest concentration of Irish immigrants, as it was forcibly settled by the English crown using indentured servants from Ireland. These Irish servants were eventually replaced by West African slaves who took on the surnames of the prior inhabitants, much as African slaves in the United States assumed the names of their owners.
In the United States, whites with Native American, African American, or other non-white ancestry may historically have called themselves "Black Irish," "Black Dutch," or "Black German" as a reflection of their coloring.
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no it is the black hair and brown eyed irish |
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bella234
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never heard of it - and im irish |
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