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Famous Non-White Irish People?

  • 18-01-2011 01:40PM
    #1
    Dunjohn
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    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
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    Phil!


  • #3
    Cook my sock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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: 7,062 ✭✭✭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
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    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, Registered Users 2 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
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jimmy Rabbitte?


  • #13
    Captain Darling
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    On a serious note, why should the colour of someones skin matter?


  • #14
    Setun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,804 ✭✭✭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: 5,165 ✭✭✭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: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭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
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    The one and only!!!!






    Come on people too easy!!!


  • #20
    Funglegunk
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    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
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    Stephen Gately.


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  • #22
    enda1
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    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
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    Liz Bonnin.


  • #24
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Cassius Clay


  • #25
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Olunkunle “Kunle” Elukanlo :p


  • #26
    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,354 ✭✭✭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_
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    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: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


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


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  • #31
    prinz
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    Darren Sutherland.


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