Their known as the Black Irish...typified by names like O'Bama.
“Known as the Black Irish....black guys named McMillan, McDonald...”
If my memory serves, the Black Irish are the result when nice Catholic Irish girls meet nice Spanish Catholic shipwrecked guys after the Spanish Armada in Queen Elizabeth’s day is totally destroyed by a big storm.
The Mc Blacks probably took the names of their masters after the Civil War. Perhaps they were less badly treated by what may have been Irish and Scotch smallholders who had personal contact with slaves, rather than large landowners who may have had more wealthy English roots. I know that there are a lot of black Williams’s which would be Welsh, who had no great love for the English. In fact the name Williams means “Williams man”, dating from when many Welsh allied themselves with William the Conquerer against the English.
“Known as the Black Irish....black guys named McMillan, McDonald...”
If my memory serves, the Black Irish are the result when nice Catholic Irish girls meet nice Spanish Catholic shipwrecked guys after the Spanish Armada in Queen Elizabeth’s day is totally destroyed by a big storm.
The Mc Blacks probably took the names of their masters after the Civil War. Perhaps they were less badly treated by what may have been Irish and Scotch smallholders who had personal contact with slaves, rather than large landowners who may have had more wealthy English roots. I know that there are a lot of black Williams’s which would be Welsh, who had no great love for the English. In fact the name Williams means “Williams man”, dating from when many Welsh allied themselves with William the Conquerer against the English.
LOL.
Black Irish refers to black hair inherited by some Ireland inhabitants after mixing with Spanish and/or Roman invaders.