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Famous Irish People Who Were Black

  • 30-04-2014 3:47pm
    #1
    DoctorBoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭


    Was thinking about Phil Lynott the other day after seeing his statue off Grafton Street. Given the generation he grew up in, he was one of a small group of people who were black and Irish at that time. Only a couple of other people like Paul McGrath and Christine Buckley come to mind as being similar. Obviously things began to change in the eighties with Irish society slowly opening up but I'm really interested in the experiences of previous generations of black Irish people.
    Any other names come to mind?


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  • #2
    WesternZulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    Blackie Connors.


  • #3
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Mary and Frances.


  • #4
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    Mary Black

    21/25



  • #5
    Not G.R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭Not G.R


    The great Samantha Mumba. Will go down in Irish Music history.


  • #6
    smellmepower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭smellmepower


    The priest from Donegal in Father Ted.

    Samantha Mumba


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  • #7
    beakerjoe
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    A thread for this??? Really ??? Good luck


  • #8
    Simply Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭Simply Red


    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaFDOB_CYAA2b8O.jpg


  • #9
    Speak Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,729 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Chris Hughton, Samantha Mumba.....


  • #10
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    O'bama clan.


  • #11
    Freddie Dodge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭Freddie Dodge


    This is clearly going to run to 40 pages....

    Edit: fcuk it, - too slow.


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  • #12
    Slicemeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭Slicemeister


    De Lyons Tea Minstrels


  • #13
    Dr Turk Turkelton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    Barack O'Bama?

    edit:damn you wazky!


  • #14
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Kevin Sharkey, but shur how would he know? He's from Donegal.


  • #15
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    smellmepower wrote: »
    The priest from Donegal in Father Ted
    Samantha Mumba


    She wasn't the Priest in Fr. Ted Silly !

    21/25



  • #16
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    A Golly Bar

    21/25



  • #17
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    who "were" black?

    Only dead people allowed?


  • #18
    Alf. A. Male
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Alf. A. Male


    Yer man, ye now him, the black one. Irish as yer hat he was. Gas craic.


  • #19
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    I Heart Internet wrote: »
    who "were" black?

    Only dead people allowed?

    Or had a wash, me Da used to be Black coming home from work

    21/25



  • #20
    Freddie Dodge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭Freddie Dodge


    Clear evidence of white superiority :pac:


  • #21
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »
    Barack O'Bama?

    edit:damn you wazky!

    Great minds and all that...


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  • #22
    Pat Mustard
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    Eddie Murphy, or Éamonn Ó Murchadha, as he is affectionately known in West Cork.


  • #23
    MonstaMash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭MonstaMash


    Yare Michael Jegbefume

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3307735/


  • #24
    rizzee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭rizzee


    Phil Lynott


    Edit: Didn't even bother reading the first post and it's there :p


  • #25
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Not G.R wrote: »
    The great Samantha Mumba. Will go down in Irish Music history.

    Samantha Mumba ? Did he not have a heart attack playing for Bolton ?


  • #26
    Nichololas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Nichololas


    I Heart Internet wrote: »
    who "were" black?

    Only dead people allowed?


    Michael O'Jackson


  • #27
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    The guy's at 1:22 great-great-grandfather.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8


  • #28
    DoctorBoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭DoctorBoo


    Dead and living people allowed!

    Why not a thread for this?! Seems as good a subject for a thread as any I've seen!

    Kevin Sharkey is the priest from Fr Ted I believe!


  • #29
    Alf. A. Male
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Alf. A. Male


    MonstaMash wrote: »
    Yare Michael Jegbefume

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3307735/


    Do you know how he got his name? Anytime he'd say he's Irish, someone would say "Y'are alright" and it stuck. True story.


  • #30
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    Not G.R wrote: »
    The great Samantha Mumba. Will go down in Irish Music history.

    Not forgetting her equally talented younger brother Omeru.


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  • #31
    MonstaMash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭MonstaMash


    Alf. A. Male wrote: »
    Do you know how he got his name? Anytime he'd say he's Irish, someone would say "Y'are alright" and it stuck. True story.
    Actually I do, I'm his godfather ;)


  • #32
    DoctorBoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭DoctorBoo


    MonstaMash wrote: »
    Yare Michael Jegbefume

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3307735/

    Too young for me! Looking for pre-1980s!


  • #33
    Alf. A. Male
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Alf. A. Male


    MonstaMash wrote: »
    Actually I do, I'm his godfather ;)

    Y'are alright.


  • #34
    Pinturicchio
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    Curtis Fleming


  • #35
    MonstaMash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭MonstaMash


    Alf. A. Male wrote: »
    Y'are alright.
    I am, that's why I'm so proud of his achievements ;)


  • #36
    cournioni
    Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 12,739 Mod ✭✭✭✭cournioni


    The Mustard wrote: »
    Eddie Murphy, or Éamonn Ó Murchadha, as he is affectionately known in West Cork.
    Don't forget Benni McCarthy.

    22233_ori_benni_mccarthy.jpg


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  • #37
    Too Tough To Die
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    Ruth Negga is doing quite well for herself.


  • #38
    LithiumKid1976
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    The Commitments...


  • #39
    smileyj1987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,325 ✭✭✭smileyj1987


    Liz Bonnin .


  • #40
    Nerdlingr
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    Darren Sutherland :(


  • #41
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I can't remember his name but there was a black lad on the Irish football team a few years back


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  • #42
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Used to love telling Gullible visitors that Michael Jackson used to drink in Bruxelles hence the statue of him outside.

    "But it doesn't really look like him"

    "Sure, it was the best we could do"

    I used to have a photo of a few mates posing and moonwalking beside it. Spas.


  • #43
    smileyj1987
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    Paul Osman .


  • #44
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    That lad they have a statue for outside Bruxelles off grafton street. You, know... your man Phil Babb.


  • #45
    Ryu Hayabusa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 262 ✭✭Ryu Hayabusa


    phasers wrote: »
    I can't remember his name but there was a black lad on the Irish football team a few years back

    Clinton Morrison


  • #46
    The Pheasant2
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    Mahammad Ali - free man of Ennis


  • #47
    Jesus Wept
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    beakerjoe wrote: »
    A thread for this??? Really ??? Good luck

    What's the issue?


  • #48
    Arthur Beesley
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    DoctorBoo wrote: »
    Too young for me! Looking for pre-1980s!

    Not exactly famous either.

    Having said that, I do recognise him from his role as social worker or similar on Fair City.


  • #49
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    phasers wrote: »
    I can't remember his name but there was a black lad on the Irish football team a few years back

    Terry Phelan.


  • #50
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Santa Cruz wrote: »
    Not forgetting her equally talented younger brother Omeru.

    Beat me to it. Although my sarcasm would have been less subtle.


  • #51
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    Jimmy Rabbit.
    Black and proud.


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