[Danny]

Actually, the term only shows up in America and is pretty much meaningless. About the best explanation I’ve heard for it has to do with the Potato Famine that led to so much emigration to the US. The potatoes would turn black and the Irish coming to the US, particularly the South were called Black Potato Irish. The idea that it came from the survivors of the Spanish Armada has been pretty much disproven. Another suggestion that holds a little more water is that it refers to the Irish who were descended from the Vikings who invaded and settled. They were said to wear black armor. However, if either of these had any real teeth to them, the term would also be found in Ireland, and it is not. Danny

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