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...this effort they have come up with a lot of information that any good Irishman could have told them before they started, had they bothered to ask. They have come up with quite a bit of information that no Irishman ever knew before, and a great abundance of information that they better not tell any Irishman to his teeth...
...East-Baltic type of Irishman, who are the round-headed people with-tow or red heads, fair skin, and blue eyes are the real minority group in Ireland. There was just 1.3 per cent of them among the 10,000 surveys...
Another common belief that went by the wayside according to the records Hooton compiled was the myth of the "big Irishman with the jet black hair and snapping dark eyes." In the 10,000 people polled, the survey makers found just 33 persons fitting into this category, and they were all small and slender, like Italians...
Hooton was excited about one find made in Ireland. "This is astounding," he said. "We found that the primitive looking Irishman, the man with the low big browline and the long arms, lives the longest. These are the men in the Keltic type class. They have deep blue eyes, long heads and the deepest chests...
Another famous Irishman, James Joyce, sat for a series of pencil sketches. "He had a precise and buttoned-up appearance . . . He explained that the poverty of his beard was due to an early accident to his chin, but I did not feel empowered to restore the missing growth. In spite of his cold and formal exterior, I was much drawn to Joyce and, on finally parting with him . . . to his consternation, embraced him in the continental manner...