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Famous Non-White Irish People?

  • 18-01-2011 1:40pm
    #1
    Dunjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭


    This guy's name is Rogers Cole-Wilson and he's become something of a sensation in Poland, mainly because he's black:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0ulNh94YAc


    After thinking for a moment about how darling that fact was, it hit me that I couldn't think of any famous black people over here, either. Or any other non-white ones. Have we any?

    And no, foreign descendants of Irish emigrants from a billion years ago don't count.


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Phil!


  • #3
    Cook my sock
    Registered Users Posts: 597 ✭✭✭Cook my sock


    phil lynnot


  • #4
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    biko wrote: »
    Phil!

    +1 to Phil Babb also. :pac:


  • #5
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    samantha mumba


  • #6
    Funglegunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    Paul McGrath, Samantha Mumba...


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  • #7
    CHealy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭CHealy


    Samantha Mumba for god's sake, how could you forget???


  • #8
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, but not sure if he's famous outside of Ireland.


  • #9
    CokaColumbo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 478 ✭✭CokaColumbo


    Muhammad Ali and Obama.


  • #10
    jimthemental
    Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    Obama, Change! Wooo!



    Edit: Paul McGrath, Phil Lynnot, Phil Babb and lest we forget, Curtis Flemming.


  • #11
    Raze_them_all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭Raze_them_all


    biko wrote: »
    Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, but not sure if he's famous outside of Ireland.
    didn the brother(s) play aussie rules?


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  • #12
    jaybee747
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭jaybee747


    Jimmy Rabbitte?


  • #13
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    On a serious note, why should the colour of someones skin matter?


  • #14
    Setun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,805 ✭✭✭Setun


    Ray Shah. Very famous.

    EDIT: Actually can't remember what he looks like and not bothered googling. Maybe he is white?


  • #15
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    Yeah Setanta is down under but calling him not white. Hmmm. He's more sallow skinned really, no?

    Jason Sherlock, to continue the GAA trend.


  • #16
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Paul McGrath? Dr. Mosajee Bhamjee?


  • #17
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Nevin Maguire


  • #18
    Dunjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    Captain Darling wrote: »
    On a serious note, why should the colour of someones skin matter?

    Precisely why I thought it was darling, Darling ;)

    I forgot about Phil Lynott because a) he died before I was five, and b) I've never seen a colour photograph of him.


  • #19
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,105 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    The one and only!!!!






    Come on people too easy!!!


  • #20
    Funglegunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    Dunjohn wrote: »
    Precisely why I thought it was darling, Darling ;)

    I forgot about Phil Lynott because a) he died before I was five, and b) I've never seen a colour photograph of him.

    Shouldn't really matter tbh :P


  • #21
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Stephen Gately.


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  • #22
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    Captain Darling wrote: »
    On a serious note, why should the colour of someones skin matter?

    If the title was famous red-haired Irish people would you reply the same?

    Its interesting enough to some that they replied so maybe if you're not interested, which is fair enough, you could no reply then. Simples.


  • #23
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Liz Bonnin.


  • #24
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Cassius Clay


  • #25
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Olunkunle “Kunle” Elukanlo :p


  • #26
    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    I will be. I'm entering the porn business soon.


  • #27
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Out in the fields,
    the fighting has begun.
    Out on the streets,
    they're falling one by one.
    Out from the skies,
    a thousand more will die each day.
    Death is just a heartbeat away.


  • #28
    extra-ordinary_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,769 ✭✭✭extra-ordinary_


    Daddio wrote: »
    Ray Shah. Very famous...





    Who?


  • #29
    Apanachi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Apanachi


    Laura Izibor


  • #30
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    According to the hacked dup website peter robinson is black :confused:


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  • #31
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Darren Sutherland.


  • #32
    darragh16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭darragh16


    Phil Babb, Leon Best, Chris Hughton, Clinton Morrison...

    They all claimed to be Irish


  • #33
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    extra-ordinary_ wrote: »
    Who?

    Some DJ. He's english though, just works here. Robbin our DJ jobs.


  • #34
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Mary and Frances Black.


  • #35
    karma_
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,798 ✭✭✭karma_


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    According to the hacked dup website peter robinson is black :confused:

    No, he's orange.


  • #36
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    The Irish are the blacks of Europe and Dubs are the blacks of Ireland and north Dubs are the blacks of Dublin, so say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud.


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  • #37
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    According to the hacked dup website peter robinson is black :confused:

    A few years back, the bould Peter made a few remarks about the 'coloureds' on the Irish team...meant in less than a complimentary manner..evidently somebody remembered. Would have been funnier if they said he had a civil partnership with Nigel Dodds though.


  • #38
    BengaLover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭BengaLover


    Barack Obama
    Dustin


  • #39
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,113 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Brian Cowen, according to Ian Paisley anyway.


  • #40
    tommyhaas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭tommyhaas


    darragh16 wrote: »
    Phil Babb, Leon Best, Chris Hughton, Clinton Morrison...

    They all claimed to be Irish

    Terry Phelan, the quickest man in the world


  • #41
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Kevin Sharkey. Jason Sherlock.


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  • #42
    tallaghtmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    karma_ wrote: »
    No, he's orange.

    in south armagh they call him a black b*****d


  • #43
    WallyGUFC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭WallyGUFC


    Mary O' Rourke and her campaign workers.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/orourke-sparks-row-over-blacks-remarks-116638.html


  • #44
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Sykk wrote: »
    Out in the fields,
    the fighting has begun.
    Out on the streets,
    they're falling one by one.
    Out from the skies,
    a thousand more will die each day.
    Death is just a heartbeat away.

    That was a Gary Moore song wasn't it?


  • #45
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    Immigration is a relatively recent development here so not too surprising.

    Leo Varadkar half Asian.


  • #46
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Apart from the ones that people have already mentioned like Phil Lynott and Paul McGrath I can't think of any. Googling for "famous black Irish people" results in something entirely different than what I'm looking for.

    Jimi Hendrix had an Irish grandfather. In American terms having one Irish ancestor is enough to make him 'Irish'. Or at least it would if he wasn't black and 'African American'.

    The guitar duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela are from Mexico but made a name for themselves after they emigrated to Dublin and befriended Damien Rice.


  • #47
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Nodin wrote: »
    A few years back, the bould Peter made a few remarks about the 'coloureds' on the Irish team...meant in less than a complimentary manner..evidently somebody remembered. Would have been funnier if they said he had a civil partnership with Nigel Dodds though.

    I do indeed thanks! It would have been even funnier if he was in a non-consensual grope with frank bruno and nigel dobbs!


  • #48
    Screaminmidget
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Screaminmidget


    Theres a guy down here called peter and he plays a mean game of scrabble, people travel from all over the world to play him.


  • #49
    wobzilla1
    Registered Users Posts: 437 ✭✭wobzilla1


    Screaminmidget wrote: »
    Theres a guy down here called peter and he plays a mean game of scrabble, people travel from all over the world to play him.

    He's probably good because he uses all the difficult letters on ghetto words like shizzle


  • #50
    alfa beta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 763 ✭✭✭alfa beta


    kevin sharkey


  • #51
    baldbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,587 ✭✭✭baldbear


    Phil Lynotts son Macdaragh Lambe Galway sculptor. Farrah Noor.


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