Question: What race are Irish?

What race is an Irish person?

The Irish are an ethnic group who come from or came from the island of Ireland. There are two countries on the island of Ireland: the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Historically, the Irish have been primarily a Celtic people.

Are Irish and English the same race?

Historians teach that they are mostly descended from different peoples: the Irish from the Celts, and the English from the Anglo-Saxons who invaded from northern Europe and drove the Celts to the countrys western and northern fringes.

What race is Black Irish?

The definition of black Irish is used to describe Irish people with dark hair and dark eyes thought to be decedents of the Spanish Armada of the mid-1500s, or it is a term used in the United States by mixed-race descendants of Europeans and African Americans or Native Americans to hide their heritage.

Do the Irish have Viking blood?

Many Irish people may have Viking blood because the native population massively declined for two centuries in the Middle Ages, a new study has found. The research team believes the population in Ireland before then was around three million, but that it had dropped to about two million two centuries later.

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