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[1] [2] This meaning is not frequently used in Ireland, [3] where "Black Irish" more often refers to Irish people of African descent. [4] The first and most common use of the term "Black Irish" is tied to the myth that they were descended from Spanish sailors shipwrecked during the Spanish Armada of 1588.
The Luck of the Irish and Darby O'Gill and the Little People are American films that make reference to the wrecking of the Spanish armada as an explanation for leprechauns having pots of gold. The Spanish-Portuguese co-produced short animated film The Monkey (2021), influenced by the story of The Hartlepool Monkey , focuses on the treatment of ...
After Lough Foyle was cleared, a gale struck and La Girona was driven on to Lacada Point and the "Spanish Rocks'" (as they were known, thereafter) near Ballintoy in The Route, a territory on the north coast of County Antrim in the north-east of Ulster, on the night of 26 October 1588. Of the estimated 1,300 people on board, nine survived. 260 ...
@162.83.150.150 Black Irish is not a legitimate ethnonym, as the article states, due to a complete lack of evidence to support the most often cited Spanish Armada myth. Given its continued usage in American media, it may be more accurate to say it dates to the 19th/20th century rather than it's a 19/20th century term.
The "Myth of the Spanish Armada" could still be added to the Irish People article if it was considered important enough, and if it could be properly explained and sourced. Scolaire 07:59, 18 May 2013 (UTC) IMAO, the myth of the Spanish Armada should be consigned to where the rest of the Armada went - Davy Jones' Locker.
The Streedagh Armada wrecksite is the site of three shipwrecks of the Spanish Armada at Streedagh beach (/ ˈ s t r iː d ə /, STREE-da) in north County Sligo, in northwest Ireland. [1] The three ships are La Lavia, La Juliana, and the Santa Maria de Visón. All were part of the Levant squadron of the armada.
The Spanish Navy or officially, the Armada, is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Spanish Navy was responsible for a number of major historic achievements in navigation, the most famous being the discovery of America and the first global circumnavigation.
Around July 6, 1769 the Irish-born Spanish general Alexander (Alejandro) O'Reilly — who fought for the Catholic armies of Austria, France, and Spain against the armies of the European Protestant powers [12] — sailed to Louisiana with 23 ships, loaded with 46 cannons, 150,000 pesos, and almost 2,100 soldiers, both black and white, whom he ...