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May 11, 2021 · But a new documentary claims that the earliest Irish people looked nothing like that at all. The Burren: Heart of Stone, which aired on Irish television late last month, has suggested that early inhabitants of Ireland were in fact black, and had blue eyes.
- Harry Brent
Nov 9, 2020 · Dr. John Breslin and Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley have produced a phenomenal book colorizing old black and white photos from Irish history.
May 24, 2016 · The term "Black Irish" is generally used for people of Irish origin with dark features, black hair, darker skin, and dark eyes. Interestingly, the term is rarely referred to in Ireland but has circulated among Irish emigrants and their descendants for centuries.
Nov 11, 2020 · Old Ireland in Colour features images from throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. There are over 170 photographs from all four provinces, and are accompanied by captions by Buckley. What...
Apr 19, 2021 · Prehistoric Irish people were dark skinned and had blue eyes, a new documentary claims. The hunter gather population that lived in Ireland 10,000 years ago do not have any of the pigmentation...
- Ronan Mcgreevy
Jun 2, 2012 · So, we know people have lived in Ireland since at least 8,000 BCE – but where did they come from before that? Most experts think that the first people migrated to Ireland from Britain at the end of the last ice age.
May 1, 2018 · Some believe that survivors of the Spanish Armada who landed in Ireland were the ancestors of Ireland’s black-haired population, but that’s not true; black hair and brown eyes were attributes of the original Celts. Further, there was no great settlement of Spanish military in Ireland.
