Thank you.
-All- of the Irish in my family are dark haired and gray-blue or brown eyed.
My auburn hair and green eyes came from the Welsh side.
I would imagine that my mother’s Danish genes “flipped a switch” and caused recessive genes to appear in me even though my sister is a brunette with gray-blue eyes.
Your hair and green eyes (lucky you), are glorious.
I've a neighbor who has a very nice shade of red/auburn hair. Though never as long as yours she has lately been wearing it in what I term a 'Pelosi'. (Cut like Nancy P's). I despise it and cringe when I see it. Good thing we don't speak to one another anyway!
>>My auburn hair and green eyes came from the Welsh side.
Interesting, my grandma had red hair, but I believe that came from her Scottish father. She and my dad had gray eyes. I have curly dark brown hair but my beard used to have streaks of red through it (now it has streaks of white where the red was) and hazel eyes.
American mutt here, proud of it. Irish, Mexican, Scottish, Spanish background in about equal proportion.