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
There was no such thing as an “American Indian” until Europeans came over. There were a bunch of stone age tribes, just as in many parst of the world. They all wanted to take control and expland, just like all over the world. They teamed up with Europeans to kill off their neighbors, just like all over the world. They encountered a much larger and a superior military force – Europeans. They also thought that the white man could not survive in their lands – he did not have the skill. They felt that it was OK to lie to a white man because he was not the same people. The Cherokee nation bought and worked black slaves. Everyone back then thought slavery was fine, just as long as you were not the slave. But I expect more from my government. The fact that they made promises and broke them on a whim, is not right. I firmly believe that Andrew Jackson Should have been impeached and charged with criminal acts for defying the supreme court. He was a monster. Take him off the twenty.
Nyalnl, The Irish were not slaves in the same since. They were forced to work at slave wages and take the hardest jobs. The reason being that a slave was considered a valuable piece of property. Therefore, much better to risk the life and health of the Irishman than one’s valuable propery. Also the light skin was a benifit to northern peoples, just as cycle cell was to west Africans. Light skin insured good ViT D levels. Hetero-cycle cell insured survival from malaria. Also Dark skinned peoples do get skin cancer, just not as much. But it is harder to spot. Thanks for your positive comments. I try to be objective and leave emotions and insecutities out, because they are of no value. History shows what was a ggod survival strategy in one area may not have worked in another. Thats part of the reason diversity developed. Keep the love going.
Nowadays Europeans are to a certain extent direct descendants of the Romans and their slaves who overlapped with the Celts and the Greeks who were there before them all over Europe including Britannia.
Later, Germanic tribes from the north to a large extent and Arabs from the south to a lesser extent also got into the mix.
Some of the Germanic tribes were also mixed up with some central Asian elements.
North Africa and the Middle East pretty much shared that same genetic makeup along with local peoples until they got overrun by the Arabs.
My point his that in the end we are pretty much not that different genetically speaking.
I just stumbled on this site. Very Interesting that ignorance is alive and well in 09. National Geo. has long cleared up this in March 2006 The Greatest Journey ever told, what you mutant Niggers don’t read? To sum up what we self educated Negroes know,and it seems some ‘whites’ used to be colored Negroes know.No one Non -Colored can produce a colored child. Has NEVER happened will Never happen. But a person of color especially BLACK, can & has produced a ‘Mutation’ so-called white race, That race does not exist. Proof further everybody had to be a color,in order not to be one now. You whites are mutations of black albinos you went too far to the right. Everyone on this earth was black . When a child was born without color in Africa they were left to die for it was considered evil to be born without looking like your Mother & Father the original colored race. And whites have proved,been proved ,that The COLORED PEOPLE were here before anyone. Look at the pic of Osiris His name means ‘Lord of the Perfect BLACK’ not White. We painted ourselves in color not pale.Osiris had 4 sons the black man, the brown, the red,& the yellow. Any other is cursed in bible you are cursed if you turn white.To have a working Pineal Gland is the blessing of the creator mom & dad. To not have color is a disease. Read Dr. Frances Cress Welsing the Isis Papers. Nothing Racist about it truth. Read it & weep. The Pineal Gland is the Master Gland ,the Third Eye it produces Melanin, the substance that gives you color. And don’t forget to add insult to injury, when the slavemaster father a child with a slave, it looked like him mutant in most cases.So he sold that child too.Most of them could pass, so they hooked up with whites & THAT CHILD CAME OUT LIGHTER. One drop of black blood dominates. The much stronger genes are from the original man & the lady that had ALL of us. All of mankind (kind of a man) Mutant Albinos, & Hueman beings came from melaninated peoples of the Earth. There was NO Story,before the African Story NONE…No thought, language,culture, nothing before the colored people.
Bravo Sean,
for acknowledging your history and the well-knwon traditions of the blacks in Ireland. It takes nothing away from your Irishness that you may have had some black blood. Just as it takes nothing from my blackness that I have a recent red-haired great grandmother who spoke of some ancestors that fled a potato famine in Ireland. No one who loves their heritage is going to try to deny the heritage of their own ancestors.
The people of which you speak are probably the Firbolg also related to the black Danes. The tradition of Danaus is thought to have been related to that of Odin. I believe they were descendants of the early or original Berbers such as the Tuareg and Woodabe Fulani, whose men are often reach close to 7 feet in height and who were also closely related to tall pre-Islamic Arabians of Hejaz and Yemen known as Ad or Adhar or Athir, Jazar or Khazaraj, and Amalek or Meluhha. The Shasu of the stock of Ad also according to tradition settled in the Bornu Sudan including Cameroon as well long before the time of Christ.
The mythological traditions of Dione in Ireland are related to those of the early Danaus (Aden and Adnan) and Belus or Baal of pre-Islamic Arabians. The Mauri who were mostly an early extension of the Ad Sabaeans and Amalekites back into Arabia due to their Hyksos invasion occupied both the northern coast of Africa and the Iberian peninsula in pre-islamic times. Some near Cadiz were known as Erembi Nigri.
There were also smaller black people who survived in Ireland and the Hebrides up until the 18th century, who may have been descended from the Picts, but could have been descended from the Moorish Arabs similarly described who had settled in Sicily. The small black people known as Tamim bin Murra (of Spain Palermo), Hudhail, Hamida and other of the very small sized “chocolate colored “near black” tribes still living in parts of the Hejaz.and Yemen in Arabia.
Dear Dana and all,
Thanks,
That is exactly my point. It does not matter what colour you are or where your family is from.
These ideas died with the British Empire. What is important is the content of your character. peace….
Thank You All knowledgable Brothers & Sisters. It’s MAAT tIme.Truth & Justice.Truth is we are all related.All came from one Dark Skinned Man & Woman all called her Creator.Different names same woman Auset,Isis,Astarte,Mary,etc. the list goes on.The real issue here is to find out what made caucasians to lose their color in the first place.How do you lose Pineal Gland function?That question can only be answered in Africa first,then when the African Albinos left for a cooler climate. Everyone can name names , but trace it back you gonna always come up Black. We were all fooled for a reason.Read Willie Lynch letter, real or not it’s working.We were divided for a reason, given lies look up the family Arius Calpurnius Piso aka Flavius Josephus.Then the 3rd EYERS should be able to see a little better.When the veil is truly lifted all should see the plot.Go to the website Blacked Out Through Whitewash,the information is there if you seek.Then Brothers & Sisters can live ,regardless of the outter cover real Black is in not out.Peace & Love to all the Truth Bringers.And to the holders of the Lie, may truth have mercy on you…