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The short answer is yes. The Irish are generally light skinned (90%), light or mixed eye colour, and more often dark haired (43%) than medium haired (35%) with a light-haired and red-haired minority.
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The above answer is incredibly moronic, and seems to define 'race' as visual characteristics and nothing more. By 2k3r021's logic a black albino is 'Caucasian' because he/she LOOKS it.
The Irish, along with the Scots and the Welsh, are descended from the Celts. The Celts did descend from Caucasians, but a long, long time ago, so it depends what you consider to be enough generations to consider someone a different 'race' as their ancestors (bear in mind that both white and black people, as well as all humans, descended from the same group of humans at some point).
Another point that should be considered is that while many people TODAY consider Irish people to be 'white' Caucasians, the white racists of 300 years ago would have strongly disagreed - in fact, the common opinion in America 300 years ago was that Irish people were quite simply a different (and lower) race from 'white people'. The signs outside businesses in those days read "No blacks or Irish". They were considered dirty, their bloodline spoiled.
The idea that 'race' is determined by visual characteristics is asinine; that would mean that aboriginal Australians and black Africans would be of the same 'race', even though they are separated by thousands of generations of breeding - more generations than black Africans are separated from white Europeans.
But even if you do define 'race' as visual characteristics, there are enough slight visual differences between Irish people and 'Caucasians' to consider them at the very least an offshoot, or 'cousin race'.
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What do Irish people call their friends?
It depends on what their friends name is
Another name for white people?
The name for white people is "Caucasian"
How many Irish people died in the civil war?
About 2,316 died on the Union and 4,550 died on the Confederate
What do irish look like?
Irish people are caucasian Europeans. They are stereotyped to be rufous (red-headed) and extremely white skinned. While true for a small portion of the Irish and Irish-Americans, most Irish people actually do not fit this description. They range from very white to light brunet skinned (like Irish stepdancer Gillian Norris and actor Colin Farrell) and most have dark brown hair. All shades of brown are common as well as blonde and jet black hair. Red hair is, as mentioned above, least common but still present throughout the population. Eyes of all colors are present in the Irish population. Irish people of darker complexions are sometimes termed "Black Irish" in the United States and are said to be the descendants of Spaniards who swam to shore following the wreckage of the Spanish Armada off the west coast of Ireland. This legend is false; the "darker" Irish are most likely the original Celtic inhabitants of the island, predating the Viking and Anglo invasions from the east. Additionally, the R1b haplogroup is most common in western, southern and northern Ireland, Wales, Brittany, Galicia and the Basques, suggesting these peoples have similar origins. Many researchers place the origin of the original Hibernians (ancient Celtic Irish) in northern Spain and northern Portugal. These first inhabitants were most likely medium skinned and dark haired, like most early (Bronze Age and Pre-Bronze Age) western Europeans.
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