--The term 'black Irish' has been much bandied about and has come to be misused as a 'racial' or 'genetic' description (for example, da Mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown, an African-American from a backwoods little town in Texas, in all seriousness, describes himself as an 'Irish baron' who is 'black Irish'[...Yet perhaps he is, as yet another Saxon swine-devil usurper ala Colgrin, in the reincarnation of that infamous despoiler of virgin maidens of the Springs-- pop da hymies' hymens, da younger the better!--a miscreant who, along with his band of cronies, was responsible, according to legend, for Camelot becoming The Wasteland...]).

Various cultures, over time, have made these type of pitches as to being reponsible for the 'noble' traits that have been ascribed to those 'black Irish.' The Romans, in particular, under the Caesar's, took credit for this genetic 'civilizing' of the 'Celts as other.' And for those who brought up the subject of 'invasions,' as our Celtic/Gaelic 'Book of Invasions' does indeed log the most attempts against one culture ever made in History, remember that only the British recently were ever in any *degree* successful at domination.

Another good source for the different cultural types and features among the Celts is the work of Gildas, especially 'The Ruin of Britain,' (c. 550 A.D.), in which he terms the invading Saxons 'Black Heathen' (the *swarthiness* one on the list mentioned as perhaps 'black Irish,' which it is not, see, for example, any illustrations of 'Colgrin the Cold Grin of Death,' the Germanic:Saxon 'swine- devil' unsuccessful raider of Celtic Britain prior to the Angles and later Saxons changing the cultural character from olde Celtic to the modern day Brits) and the invading Picts as 'Red Heathen' (pasty-faced, corpulent, small, beady-eyed, and red-haired but 'pin-headed'), and the 'Yellow Heathen' (those Vikings and Scandanavians quite ruthless as large, stodgy, slow-moving but thorough invaders). These types are to be contrasted with the 'Golden Age' that Celtic Britain had begun to experience through the part-Roman consul Ambrosius, his son Uther of Pendragon, and Arthur. While descriptions of Ambrosius have him blond, finely-haired and featured (looking like the Greek Ptolemy, commander to Alexander the Great), both Uther and Arthur--as well as noble Guenevier-- have traditionally been depicted as 'black Celtic,' that is, dark, wavy chestnut- haired, patrician cheek-boned and featured and an almost Semitic cant to the ears and chin.

Since the anthropological description of 'black Irish' as 'long-skulled' has been in use some time for identifying people of this cultural type, the origin is most certainly Indo-European from a long while ago. Besides the darker-hair, or chestnut and 'henna red' brown, and the high cheekbones, oval, finely-featured face, the body type is tall and thin, though often broad-shouldered and low- body-fat muscled. The term well applies to that Roman Celt, Marcus Antonius, in embodying, too, the 'Dionysian' type as compared and contrasted with the 'Apollonian,' more fair-haired and 'lighter' personality, as the ancient Greeks made distinction.

And as Jean Markale has noted the 'successive waves' of Celts from the 'great Asiatic river plain,' of which the recent 'tartan discovery' was part, through the areas now known as Judea, Iran, Achaean Greece,Italy,France, the Danube, Poland, etc., perhaps the prototypical 'Black Irish' is the Indo-European figure of Krishna, termed 'The Dark Lord,' ala Dionysos. Despite the current rage of 'deconstructuralism' ascribing racial characteristics of a too-literal nature that, when one reads the Vedas and other Hindu:Buddhist wisdom texts, one sees is clearly 'mish-taken,' the meaning of 'The Dark Lord' remains the same; much as Achilleus describes the Two Jars of Zeus in 'The Iliad,' from which Heaven dispenses *blessings* and *misfortune* in amounts according to 'one's own karma,' the same process functions as the 'working metaphor' of ancient Vedic wisdom. One transforms obstacles into hurdles, and one remembers, too, that one's life is as transient as a 'brief flash of lightning through the inky sky.' For those who do not heed the urgings towards meritorious conduct and forget the 'opportunity' for 'choosing well' with whichwe are all born, 'equally,' the figure of Krishna the Avenger looms large, as, just as King Arthur swore by his immortal soul to 'always protect the Tom Thumbs and wee little ones,' the Krishna has functioned through time in the same way, and his wrath, calling forth one's 'negative karma' in the Spotlight of Heaven, making one's misdeeds a kind of acrid 'pyschic' goo which can no longer be 'transferred' to 'another,' is indeed to be feared--in the same way as our Celtic Cu Chu Lainn, often described as being 'darkened' with 'warrior trembling,' a matter having to do with 'the bitter gall of the Heavenly Mother,' as the Greeks have termed the *secret* of why Achilleus, as well as Alexander to follow, became The Invincible One.