African Roots of Ireland – Oguejiofo Annu

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The Fomorians

There are many oblique references to the presence of Black people in ancient Ireland. Ancient Irish mythology refers to the original inhabitants of the island as being a giant, sea-faring people called the Fomorians (Fomors), which means “dark of the sea”. According to the ancient lore, they were a cushitic people from the African continent. Often depicted as demons, they defeated the first few incoming waves of invaders, but could not defeat the Firbolgs, who settled the land and lived side-by-side with the native Fomors.

Those myths may have a factual historical basis. It is proposed that the Formorians were a real people who were in all likelihood sailors from the African continent.

Two more invasions, the first led by the godly Tuatha de Danaan, and the second by the Celtic Milesians, took control of Ireland, mixing together with the Fomorians until they were no more.

There are credible sources for the African association with Ireland. The most likely of these is that they were Phoenicians and/or Egyptians. The Phoenicians were Canaanites, which came from the line of Ham. Ham is the mythological ancestor of the Black nation.

The Phoenicians were also well-known for their sailing skills, and are said to have traveled to the British Isles, which they called the “Tin Islands”. Perhaps, before Ireland was a Celtic domain, which it wasn’t until a few centuries BCE, the Phoenicians colonized it. It is noteworthy that the name Fomorians sounds a bit like Phoenicians.

There is also a legend that an Egyptian princess, Scota, left Egypt with some followers and journeyed to Ireland. Legend has it that Egyptians left many ancient tin mines all over Britain but especially Ireland which was their major source of the valuable metal.

Another idea is that they were Taureg Berbers. The Berber language is Hamitic, and the Berber people live in an area from which travel to Ireland would be easily accessible. The Berbers perhaps set sail from western Morocco, and settled on Ireland before the Celts, making it their new home.

Moorish Science Temple founder Drew Ali teaches that Ireland was once part of a Moorish empire, and that the Irish are a Moorish people. Perhaps there is a common root between the “moor” sound in Fomor and the word Moor?


Selkies and Half-Breeds

Another Irish legend tells of the Selkies, a sort-of “wereseal” that is a seal during day, but a human by nightfall. Sometimes, in an Irish family of fair-skinned, light-haired people, a child is born with dark hair eyes, and skin, and is called a Selkie.

The concept of the Selkies appears to make subliminal reference to the half-breed children that resulted from the extensive miscegenation that occurred between the Celts and the dark skinned original inhabitants that they had met upon their arrival in Ireland.

Many people of Irish descent have distant and recent African roots, and these features can still be seen in the people and in the culture. There are some Irish people with Afros (just like Andre the Giant a late continental European wrestler with afro-hair). In Southern Ireland, some people, referred to as “Black Irish”, are noted for their strikingly dark features, as opposed to the fair-skinned, light-haired north.

Although many Irish descendants are particularly pale, they do have pronounced Africoid facial features, as well as dark brown eyes, and dark brown hair that is sort-of kinky, especially in moist conditions. A sub race of the Irish called the Bronn are noticeably Mediterranean (read: African) in features especially their hair.

In addition to all of this, Celtic music is distinctly different from the rest of Europe, and easily comparable to African music.


Black, Viking and Irish

Unlike Scotland and England, Ireland was never colonized by the Romans. As a result, Ireland remained relatively isolated.

The Vikings established port cities like Dublin. The Viking texts left stories and descriptions of African soldiers captured in Ireland whom they called blaumen[blue-men].

Most Viking references to ”black” in Norse would have signified having black hair as opposed to skin color but blaumen meant black skinned. Most of these blaumen were captured soliders from Moorish Spain. It was observed that:

“A prominent Viking of the eleventh century was Thorhall, who was aboard the ship that carried the early Vikings to the shores of North America. Thorhall was “the huntsman in summer, and in winter the steward of Eric the Red. He was, it is said, a large man, and strong, black, and like a giant, silent, and foul-mouthed in his speech, and always egged on Eric to the worst; he was a bad Christian.””

“Another Viking, more notable than Thorhall, was Earl Thorfinn, “the most distinguished of all the earls in the Islands.” Thorfinn ruled over nine earldoms in Scotland and Ireland, and died at the age of seventy-five. His widow married the king of Scotland. Thorfinn was described as “one of the largest men in point of stature, and ugly, sharp featured, and somewhat tawny, and the most martial looking man… It has been related that he was the foremost of all his men.””


What about Scotland and Wales?

“Any comprehensive account of the African presence in early Europe should include England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Scandinavia. The history and legends of Scotland confirm the existence of “purely Black people.” We see one of them in the person of Kenneth the Niger. During the tenth century Kenneth the Niger ruled over three provinces in the Scottish Highlands.

The historical and literary traditions of Wales reflect similar beliefs. According to Gwyn Jones (perhaps the world’s leading authority on the subject), to the Welsh chroniclers, “The Danes coming in by way of England and the Norwegians by way of Ireland were pretty well all black: Black Gentiles, Black Norsemen, Black Host.””

Ogu Eji Ofo Annu


Sources:

Ancient And Modern Britons, by David Mac Ritchie
Nature Knows No Color-Line, by J.A. Rogers


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  1. Tori K. the ancient egyptians were not what many people call “black” depending on what you call black. the ancient egyptians who built the pyramids were a mix of many races including african. to find the truely dark africans near egypt in those days you had the nubians who for a while occupied egypt. they also built there own pyramids, just smaller. However if you look at other african empires they had constructed many cities, among them the Ashanti tribe that prospered on the slave trade. many ancient sites were destroyed by early white explorers to try and hide the fact that africans had civilizations so as to prove africans were “subhuman” so as to have an excuse to enslave them…… i just read a lot more of the posts up here……. a lot of racial tension. lets just put it this way. At some stage or another Everyone was a slave. everyone was a slave master everyone had an empire. everyone was either dominant or submissive to another culture. We are all humans and the sway of power has chaged hands many times. In the end we are all human. light a joint…. pour a drink …… light a cigarette…. what ever your vice. chill out. have fun peace

  2. re John Will
    Yeah of course mate and the only people that exterminated so called Native Americans were other native americans. You really are incredibly ignorant!

  3. re John wills “revisionist” crap. What evidence or proof are you citing to say that Ancient Egypt was not a “negroid” society? You are talking with a degree of certainty that suggests a level of knowledge that you have been unable to demonstrate!

    1. If you look at the protests in Tahrir Square today, you get a very good idea of what Egyptians
      must have looked like since the start. I can well imagine a number of Individuals in the Dynasties were black like Sadat, but the Egyptians are literally what they were. That place doesn’t change significantly over millenia. Just like everywhere else with a sedentary agrarian population.

  4. dee ,the stuff about “slav” is so off the mark in terms of historical accuracy. the truth is that no one is sure as to the etymology of the word slave. No serious academic believes the word to have any origin in Africa.
    Furthermore your use of the word “slave ” and “slavery” in the context of Africa and Europe is at the least questionable. In general African “slavery” was a function of war i.e p.o.w. The person would at some point be freed,allowed to own property and to some degree have rights as a HUMAN being. European enslavement of Africans was marked by the absence of these and by the belief that African people were sub human property to be treated as such. European Slave owners documents detail torture of genitals and mutilation of body parts as well as all manner of frankly psychologically disturbing forms of torture as standard practise. This terror was part of the process of maintaining control of plantations,where owners were vastly outnumbered by the enslaved.There is no documentary Evidence to say one that Irish slaves were treated far worse than blacks..they died out in the conditions which for them were unsurvivable,and there is no evidence that they were more expensive…who would pay more for someone to do less work and live for a shorter amount of time?

  5. waveryman…maybe he identifies with “nigga’ coz hes Mouri, lotsa Maori Ras in NZ…..
    and Bred perhaps the Irish slaves were cheaper coz they were not as hardy and hardwoking as the Africans….
    I am starting to suspect that the “melanin deficency” is in part due to inferior nutrition for generations and I suspect the Irish slaves were weaker and sicker due to this…You Africans should consider yourselves lucky, while we pale skins have to worry about melanomas everytime we go out into the sun, you can enjoy it.
    We so-called “whites” will probably die out like the redheads, interbreeding to improve sun radiation resistance.
    Hopefully this crazy “racial tension’ will die out too…
    OneLove and JahGuidance
    your Sistah in Rasta
    Nyah I

  6. In 2005, stone etchings `were found in old Pictish territory in Scotland of Maize and Aloe Vedra `plants, native American. In global warming time it is grown 150 miles farther north. All maritime tribes tatooed. snd had the traits displayed by Picts. These tribes didn’t scalp. There is a clear lane from Newfoundland to scotland and vicinity. They weren’t scythian, but blacheaded `Amerindians. Africans may have gone to Mexico with Carthaginians but never to Northern Europe. Earth people progressed as `they Migrated due to climate cycles like the present; We are going into a new Cold cycle which will be in fvull swing in 2 or 3 more years `more if not sooner. The Gulf Stream was half stopped 2 years`ago. There will be scanty rainfall on land, crop failure, and pandedmics becauae of a sevedre world wide drought and lack of vegetation until the world re-balances (Population and stabled rain patterns, vegetation)This toime the ocean is undedr stocked. my advice. Think about building a cistern and a greenhouse leading right into your kitchen.

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