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Less then 30% in the city I live in.
I live in Toronto.
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Hooton published a key anthropological study on the Irish including their eye pigmentation - The physical anthropology of Ireland. By Earnest A. Hooton and C. Wesley Dupertuis. With a section on the west coast Irish females. By Helen Dawson. No. 1, Text, pp. xix + 304; No. 2, Tables and Half-tones. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 30, 1955.
According to this study, blue eyes, 42.1%, are the second commonest shade in Ireland. The most common though are ''blue-brown eyes'' or ''Blue-mixed eyes'' (don't have the exact percentage, but i think it's around 50%).
In an earler work (1946) Hooton concludes that the Irish who have ''blue-brown eyes'' have partially depigmentated. As blue eyes mutated from brown, it appears the Irish have an unusual intermediate (partial) mutation which have given them a unique mixed blue colour in majority.
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The Irish are fully Nordid in eye color, especially of the blue-eyed variety. According to the Irish journal of medical science published in 1997, blue eyes are indeed the commonest eye color found in 59% and the second commonest is green in 21%. This study alone proves that at least 80% of the Irish have light eyes. Now if we added gray, hazel shades it will cover the entire Irish population. Ireland has one of the highest frequency for blue-eyed people in the world! Others such as Scandinavians, Estonians also have high frequencies of light eyes.
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Most of the Irish Australians I know have blue eyes but it might be due to the location of their ancestors. This excludes the dark "black Irish" types.
I'd say 80% have blue/green eyes that I know.
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I'd say 70% of the population in Ireland have blue, green, or light mixed eyes
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