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...survey has also found cause to shatter several of our most common beliefs about the Irish," Dr. Hooton explained...
...surveying researchers came up for the most part with a great amount of facts and figures relating to the physiognomies and general anatomy of the inhabitants of Emerald Isle. Some of these, Hooton is quick to point out, are really quite astounding...
...Hooton found that most of the Irish that have immigrated to this country come from the western part of the land there and from the lower and upper-most corners. These are the roundheaded, tallest, heaviest and most florid of the race. These are the Irishmen who are quite so often pictured in cartoons and stories as the "big, affable guys with a ready wit and a brawny...
...anthropologists also revealed that of the 10,000 persons surveyed, just 43 had pure brown eyes. Most of the Irish have mixed colors or straight blue eyes, Hooton pointed out. "But," he said, "the ones with the straight dark eyes seem to live the longest. Blue-eyed people out number all others composing 46 per cent of the total population of the Island...
...Many people continually look at red-headed girls with green eyes and automatically class them 'Irish colleens,'" said Dr. Hooton. "But the fact is that only five per cent of the people who in habit the Island are red-headed. These are practically all found in the so-called 'blond belt' just west of the river Shannon...