Famous Non-White Irish People?

Dunjohn

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.

biko

Phil!

Cook my sock

phil lynnot

Captain Darling

biko wrote: »

Phil!

+1 to Phil Babb also. :pac:

Fighting Irish

samantha mumba

Funglegunk

Paul McGrath, Samantha Mumba...

CHealy

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

biko

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

CokaColumbo

Muhammad Ali and Obama.

jimthemental

Obama, Change! Wooo!



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

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?

jaybee747

Jimmy Rabbitte?

Captain Darling

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

Setun

Ray Shah. Very famous.

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

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.

prinz

Paul McGrath? Dr. Mosajee Bhamjee?

My name is URL

Nevin Maguire

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.

listermint

The one and only!!!!






Come on people too easy!!!

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

TheZohanS

Stephen Gately.

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.

prinz

Liz Bonnin.

mikemac

Cassius Clay

arybvtcw0eolkf

Olunkunle “Kunle” Elukanlo

El Horseboxo

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

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.

extra-ordinary_

Daddio wrote: »

Ray Shah. Very famous...

Who?

Apanachi

Laura Izibor

steddyeddy

According to the hacked dup website peter robinson is black

prinz

Darren Sutherland.

darragh16

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

They all claimed to be Irish

Nodin

extra-ordinary_ wrote: »

Who?

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

bonerm

Mary and Frances Black.

karma_

steddyeddy wrote: »

According to the hacked dup website peter robinson is black

No, he's orange.

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.

Nodin

steddyeddy wrote: »

According to the hacked dup website peter robinson is black

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.

BengaLover

Barack Obama
Dustin

ejmaztec

Brian Cowen, according to Ian Paisley anyway.

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

sbsquarepants

Kevin Sharkey. Jason Sherlock.

tallaghtmick

karma_ wrote: »

No, he's orange.

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

WallyGUFC

Mary O' Rourke and her campaign workers.

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

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?

Bottle_of_Smoke

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

Leo Varadkar half Asian.

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.

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!

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.

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

alfa beta

kevin sharkey

baldbear

Phil Lynotts son Macdaragh Lambe Galway sculptor. Farrah Noor.