Irish People

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There are plenty of adults on this thread as well. These ones of the Gaeltacht must be in their mid to late teens. They attend Gaeltacht schools they aren't prepubescent children. Gosh you're a picky one.

[Grace O'Malley]

Thanks. I really like Delores and The Cranberries.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

The Irish in the past did everything the Catholic Church said. There was a lot of sexual repression which wasn't a good thing. It wasn't all bad though as they were very decent and community minded. I'm not religious myself.

Yes Irish Catholics are incredibly repressed! Just more fuel to say you are just a j-rab gypsy with no relation to ethnically Irish people.

Quit making up crap, it's humorous but also obnoxious.

[LightHouse89]

Yes Irish Catholics are incredibly repressed! Just more fuel to say you are just a j-rab gypsy with no relation to ethnically Irish people.

Quit making up crap, it's humorous but also obnoxious.

melonhead is back

[Grace O'Malley]

Yes Irish Catholics are incredibly repressed! Just more fuel to say you are just a j-rab gypsy with no relation to ethnically Irish people.

Quit making up crap, it's humorous but also obnoxious.

Bad troll attempt.

[Septentrion]

There isn't really a great or significant difference in terms of hair color between regions of Ireland, they are more or less similar. There has been rumors saying that in the west of Ireland, people are particularly dark, that is false. 80% of the Irish population are of the lightest skin types (I/II) (Celtic complexion) according to the Irish Ministry of Health in 2013. So "dark-pigmented" people are in a small minority.
Red hair genes per region of Ireland (based on three most common redhead variants):
Munster = 38%
Leinster = 38%
Connacht = 35%
Ulster = 34%
Both Connacht and Munster are in the west of Ireland, but they show a fairly high frequency for carriers of the redhead genes, but are not any different from the other regions.
Frequency of pure blue-eyed people per region.
Connacht = 53%
Leinster = 52%
Ulster = 50%
Munster = 50%

[Septentrion]

Fair point.

Anyway, it's kind of strange that according to GWAS Europeans pigmentation, the Irish are blonder than Poles because Poland is closer to Baltic countries (the highest % of blondism) than to Ireland.

Overall the Irish were found lighter-haired (not only blonde, but also when combined with reddish and light brown colors), lighter-eyed (blue, green, gray eyes) and lighter-skinned (obviously Celtic complexion) than Poles, Italians, Portuguese folks. Northern Poland is closer to the Baltic region, but there are other regions such as southern, western and eastern Poland. The highest % of blondism is found among Scandinavians not Baltic countries, though they are pretty close.

[Grace O'Malley]

Haven't posted in this thread for a while but just came across some rugby pictures.

[Septentrion]

Poland is something like half 50 percent blondes and half 50 percent brunettes, but the majority of Poles are light brown/medium brown hairs with grey/blue mixed eyes. I'm sure the same applies to the Irish, except the Irish probably have more darker hairs and slightly more light eyes.

You are wrong. Sorry. However it is true that light brown hair is common in both Irish and Polish populations, with ash-blond hair more common amongst your people (Polish) than amongst the Irish who usually much more of golden blond tone when blond anyway. Nevertheless in terms of light hair (red+blonde+light brown+auburn+titian tones), the Irish surpass the Polish but not by much. You are not the only who is erroneous on this matter, there seem to be an impression that the Polish are "lighter-haired" than the Irish, only because they have more of that ash-blond hair tones. However when one take the entirety of what comprises light hair, it gives the opposite result. Plenty of Irish people have reddish/rufous tint/shades/undertones in their hair irrespective of hair colour (according to Eupedia 10%-30%). This is definitely not the case with Polish folks. Poland is not 50% blonde-haired (This is an exaggeration), that's more like Denmark or Estonia frequencies. Poland is indeed 55% light-haired (blonde + light brown + reddish tones), while is Ireland is 64% light (reddish + blonde + light brown). In both nations, dark hair is common but doesn't dominate. The reason why as a whole the Irish have a paler skin tone, more often freckled, more prone to sunburn than the Polish, is definitely linked to their high level of rufosity. Rufosity is not just pure red hair, but also auburn, reddish-blond, strawberry blond, titian shades. In fact, only 2.7% of Irish have actually black hair, while in the Polish group it is higher. Light eyes are considerably more common in the Irish group (86%) than the Polish one (69%), the Irish are not any different from the Scandinavians in terms of light eyes. Differences in the colour of light eyes too is shown, the Irish have more of the pure blue eyes while the Polish have more of the gray or rather grayish-blue eyes. Polish seem to have smaller but more square heads than the Irish whose heads are longer and larger.

[Ülev]

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