Why do so many Irish girls have jet-black curly hair with piercing blue eyes?

I haven't noticed this common look in Ireland. Especially the jet black hair part. Most of the Irish girls I've seen have light brown hair. What part of Ireland are you looking in?

They are all banshees and sirens come for your mortal seed. Flee!

Irish...Accent...

I'm just going to come here and say how much I love Irish men and their accents.

Ok, I'll leave now.

This look was everywhere, but I must admit, it was especially noticable around Wicklow and Wexford. It also was quite common in the North West in places like Mayo, Sligo and Donegal

Deal with it ... -_-

I was going to suggest that perhaps it is due to the residual genes from the lads of the Spanish Armada...

You just described practically all of my family!

We always joke that the black hair is from the Spanish armada that stopped off in ireland lol.

Irish Men..accents....yum. Oh.Sorry.I'll just leave now..

Galway girl ...
"and i ask you friends, whats a fella to do? Cause her hair is black and her eyes are blue" :-P

Irish girl ... blue eyes and darkest shade of brown hair :-)

I really don't get this.

they are the "black irish"

I've heard this expression before and tbh, I find it weird.

Actually the Celtic speaking (notice I didn't say Celts) people to settle the British Isles were from the Basque regions, bordering France and Spain. An anthropological study found the Irish of Norman ancestry (subjects had Norman surnames) tended to be the reddish haired ones. True blonde hair is extremely rare amongst Irish Catholics but common in those of old Anglo-Protestant stock. Blonde hair, surprisingly, is also rare amongst Protestants in Ulster of Scots Presbyterian ancestry.

The English are predominantly a blonde haired people (particularly the further east one travels on the island), and Scots Highlanders from the eastern areas are also noticably blonde. Now when I say blonde, I mean they are blonde at birth and remain that way till adolescence. As they age, however, a good proportion turn from blonde to light brown or even mousey. Neverhteless, some stay blonde till the ageing process makes them grey, and again, this is most noticable in the eastern counties of England. It is also in this area where ginger hair and freckles are very common. The average Englsih person is often described as being strawberry blonde, pale skinned, blue-eyed, tall and welll built. This was precisely the same way the Romans described the Scandanavian and Germanic tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes who later took over and settled much of what is modern day England.

The Irish, the Welsh, the Cornish and most Scots are more universal in nature and largely derived from these Celtic speaking tribes who settled the British Isles, whom the Romans called the Britons. They were described as having dark coloured hair, fair skin and light coloured eyes. They were also pictured to be a tall lean people with chisled angular facial features and fine boned bodies, which of course contrasted with the tall, muscular, big-boned, round faced, blonde haired, pale skinned Anglo-Saxons. The Romans laughed at their supposed youthful looking faces and golden hair and called them angels, hence the name Angles.

The blood of a warrior queen called Queen Sgota flows in their veins. She is also known as Queen Scotia. Scotland is named after her by one of her sons.