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In the earlier parts of the 19th century, "Black Irish" was sometimes used in the United States to describe biracial people of African and Irish descent. [9] [10] By the 20th century, "Black Irish" had become an identity played out by Irish-American authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Robert E. Howard.
Black Irish may refer to: . Black people in Ireland, people of African or other Black heritage holding Irish citizenship; Black Irish (folklore), an Irish-American myth that suggested Irish people with black hair and dark features were descended from Spanish sailors
According to Irish folklore, the earthworks were created by the tusks of a huge black boar. The Black Pig's Dyke (Irish: Claí na Muice Duibhe) [1] or Worm's Ditch (Irish: Claí na Péiste) [1] is a series of discontinuous linear earthworks in southwest Ulster and northeast Connacht, Ireland.
Crom Dubh (Old Irish: [krom duβ], Scottish Gaelic: [kʰɾɔum t̪uh]; meaning "black crooked [one]"; also Crum Dubh, Dark Crom) is a mythological and folkloric figure of Ireland, based on the god Crom Cruach, mentioned in the 12th-century dinnseanchas of Magh Slécht. [1]
Abartach - also known as the Giolla Deacair ("the hard servant"), he was associated with Fionn mac Cumhaill; Abcán - dwarf poet of the Tuatha Dé Danann; Abhean - poet of the Tuatha Dé Danann
The cù-sìth(e) (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [kʰuː ˈʃiː]), plural coin-shìth(e) (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [kʰɔɲ ˈhiː]) is a mythical hound found in Irish folklore and Scottish folklore. [1] [2] In Irish folklore it is spelled cú sídhe, and it also bears some resemblance to the Welsh Cŵn Annwn.
In Scottish folklore, faeries are divided into the Seelie Court and the Unseelie Court.D. L. Ashliman notes that this may be the most famous division of fairies. [3]The Seelie Court is described to comprise fairies that seek help from humans, warn those who have accidentally offended them, and return human kindness with favors of their own.
The etymology of the Scots word kelpie is uncertain, but it may be derived from the Gaelic calpa or cailpeach, meaning "heifer" or "colt".The first recorded use of the term to describe a mythological creature, then spelled kaelpie, appears in the manuscript of an ode by William Collins, composed some time before 1759 [2] and reproduced in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh of ...