# Why are women from Eire so gorgeous? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441 "2008-06-27T14:49:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/1 "2008-06-27T14:49:31Z")
Why are women from Eire so gorgeous? (Think Andrea Corr). There’s something about them - that dark hair, those eyes, those lips… ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/2 "2008-06-27T14:55:36Z")
Luck of the Irish? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/3 "2008-06-27T15:00:14Z")
[QUOTE=NineToTheSky] Why are women from Eire so gorgeous? (Think Andrea Corr). There’s something about them - that dark hair, those eyes, those lips… [/QUOTE] Apart from her equally stunning sisters, they don’t _all_ look like Andrea Corr. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/4 "2008-06-27T15:02:24Z")
Well, not \*all \*- but an awful lot do. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/5 "2008-06-27T15:03:39Z")
Must be something in the canal water. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/6 "2008-06-27T15:04:31Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] Must be something in the canal water. [/QUOTE] :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/7 "2008-06-27T15:18:06Z")
Not women specifically, but one of the most beautiful groups of people I’ve ever seen are the Wodaabe people of Africa. I read a National Geographic article on them years back and every person photographed, male or female, seemed to be the very essence of grace and serenity. The Wikipedia article doesn’t have many photos, but do an image search on Google or right on the National Geographic site and you should easily turn up some stunning pictures. > **[Wodaabe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wodaabe)** > > The Wodaabe (Fula: Woɗaaɓe, Adlam: 𞤏𞤮𞤯𞤢𞥄𞤩𞤫) is a name that is used to designate a subgroup of the Fula ethnic group who are traditionally nomadic found primarily in Niger and Chad. All Woodabe people should not be mistaken as Mbororo as these are two separate subgroups of the Fulani people. It is translated into English as "Cattle Fulani", and meaning "those who dwell in cattle camps". The Wodaabe culture is one of the 186 cultures of the standard cross-cultural sample used by anthropologis The... ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/8 "2008-06-27T15:33:19Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] Must be something in the canal water. [/QUOTE] When I saw this thread, I thought “WTF is the OP smoking? Most of the women I’ve seen in Northeast Pennsylvania look haggard and tough, like they were ridden hard and put away wet.” FWIW, EVERY women I’ve ever met who hails from Denmark has been supermodel-level gorgeous. Seriously, not Sears catalog model, but cover-of-Vogue model. ALL OF THEM. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/9 "2008-06-27T15:38:56Z")
OP must not have seen American Idol this year. There was an Irish girl on there who was scary ugly. ---
**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/10 "2008-06-27T15:39:51Z")
I have way too many beautiful Irish cousins, our big Irish family spit out 5 girls for every boy that was born, so there’s a lot of them. I hope to have a gorgeous Irish girl myself (well, half gorgeous-Italian). My sister seems to have gotten the beautiful genes in our immediate family, with her red/auburn hair and 5 foot tall petite frame. I’m resigned to the cute and curvy English side that dominated in my genes. I do have green eyes though! ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/11 "2008-06-27T15:41:15Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] When I saw this thread, I thought “WTF is the OP smoking? Most of the women I’ve seen in Northeast Pennsylvania look haggard and tough, like they were ridden hard and put away wet.” [/QUOTE] Eire as in Southern Ireland 🙂 [QUOTE=elmwood] FWIW, EVERY women I’ve ever met who hails from Denmark has been supermodel-level gorgeous. Seriously, not Sears catalog model, but cover-of-Vogue model. ALL OF THEM. [/QUOTE] I must admit that the first time I went to California in the seventies, I was a bit overwhelmed by the blonde beauties. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/12 "2008-06-27T15:41:16Z")
\> Northeast Pennsylvania Northwest, I meant. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/13 "2008-06-27T15:43:38Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] OP must not have seen American Idol this year. There was an Irish girl on there who was scary ugly. [/QUOTE] American Idol doesn’t have real people. I mean, you didn’t think they were really human, did you? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/14 "2008-06-27T15:43:41Z")
As Elmwood can testify they’re not a patch on us Eire-men. We be Adonis-like. 🙂 I hate when UKians use the term Eire, it always jars with me, seems like a put down but hey it says it on the coins. Not many Eire-ians refer to Ireland as Eire. Eireann maybe but not Eire so much. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/15 "2008-06-27T15:44:42Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] OP must not have seen American Idol this year. There was an Irish girl on there who was scary ugly. [/QUOTE] Funny story about that girl. Her record company spent something like $2,000,000 on her début album and it bombed, sold something like 300 copies. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/16 "2008-06-27T15:50:19Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] As Elmwood can testify they’re not a patch on us Eire-men. We be Adonis-like. 🙂 I hate when UKians use the term Eire, it always jars with me, seems like a put down but hey it says it on the coins. Not many Eire-ians refer to Ireland as Eire. Eireann maybe but not Eire so much. [/QUOTE] I’m sorry about the Eire bit - I had no idea. I just wanted to distinguish it from Northern Ireland, where, I’m very sorry to say, the women just aren’t up to scratch! So what should it be - Eirann? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/17 "2008-06-27T15:53:40Z")
Eireann, the Free State, the Irish Republic, the Republic Of Ireland, the free part of Ireland, the good part of Ireland, John Bull’s Other Island, the Emerald Isle (minus Norn Iron). I have to say Norn Iron women have beautiful accents for the most part. I had to go to Ohio to find my red-haired Irish _cailín_ though. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/18 "2008-06-27T15:58:44Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] Eireann, the Free State, the Irish Republic, the Republic Of Ireland, the free part of Ireland, the good part of Ireland, John Bull’s Other Island, the Emerald Isle (minus Norn Iron). I have to say Norn Iron women have beautiful accents for the most part. I had to go to Ohio to find my red-haired Irish _cailín_ though. [/QUOTE] Funny you say that: I really don’t like the accent from the Brit bit, whereas the women from the bit down below 🆒, apart from the looks, also have gorgeous accents. (Would you believe, I’ve never been there). ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/19 "2008-06-27T15:58:54Z")
**An Gadai** - You found someone on your recent visit? Is she a Doper? StG ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/20 "2008-06-27T16:00:37Z")
[QUOTE=StGermain] **An Gadai** - You found someone on your recent visit? Is she a Doper? StG [/QUOTE] Nope (although she may have a guest membership). She was originally my penpal. I arranged to meet up with other Cleveland-area dopers cos I knew I’d be back again. I’ve been there three times. Is this a record? 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441.md?page=2)