# 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:** 2
**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, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/21 "2008-06-27T16:18:13Z")
Cool. Congratulations! You don’t hear the term “penpal” very often anymore. Did it start with pen and paper? And you’ve gone to Cleveland 3 times. How many times has she come to Ireland? StG ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/22 "2008-06-27T16:25:41Z")
[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] All this time I thought you were a girl :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/23 "2008-06-27T16:31:35Z")
I say ‘Ireland’. I don’t even know how to _pronounce_ Eire. I will concur on the red-headed Irish beauties, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/24 "2008-06-27T18:00:38Z")
[QUOTE=Elysium] 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! [/QUOTE] Ooooooooo green eyes !! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/25 "2008-06-27T18:07:48Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] As Elmwood can testify they’re not a patch on us Eire-men. We be Adonis-like. 🙂 … [/QUOTE] True dat. The man is a GOD! ---
**Author:** ![PharmBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@PharmBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PharmBoy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/26 "2008-06-27T20:07:54Z")
[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] Are you kidding? I was there for 6 weeks about 15 years ago and saw exactly ONE babe… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/27 "2008-06-27T20:38:07Z")
I think it’s the pale complexions, open expressive faces, and their way of looking right at you, so that you’re drawn into their eyes. ---
**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, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/28 "2008-06-27T22:28:53Z")
[QUOTE=StGermain] Cool. Congratulations! You don’t hear the term “penpal” very often anymore. Did it start with pen and paper? And you’ve gone to Cleveland 3 times. How many times has she come to Ireland? StG [/QUOTE] Okay email pals but that sounds stupid, she’s been over here five times thus far hoping to move here towards the end of the year. I’ll likely end up in Cleveland for a significant chunk of the next few years too. ---
**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, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/29 "2008-06-27T22:32:28Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] I say ‘Ireland’. I don’t even know how to _pronounce_ Eire. I will concur on the red-headed Irish beauties, though. 🙂 [/QUOTE] 'Tis easy. “Air-rah”. For some reason when Irish people say Ireland it sounds to alot of American ears like Arlen (TX). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/30 "2008-06-27T22:40:18Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] OP must not have seen American Idol this year. There was an Irish girl on there who was scary ugly. [/QUOTE] She wasn’t ugly, but she had horrible tattoos. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/31 "2008-06-27T23:26:13Z")
[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] That’s simply because when we Nordics were Vikings we robbed all the beauties from the Brittish Isles and took them home with us 🆒 I even got an english friend who admitted to it being true when he was visiting 🙂 (sorry bout the hijack… now back to Irish lassies) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/32 "2008-06-27T23:52:48Z")
[QUOTE=WormTheRed] That’s simply because when we Nordics were Vikings we robbed all the beauties from the Brittish Isles and took them home with us 🆒 [/QUOTE] …thus immeasurably enriching the Danish genepool. ---
**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, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/33 "2008-06-27T23:56:55Z")
[QUOTE=MoodIndigo1] She wasn’t ugly, but she had horrible tattoos. [/QUOTE] . . . and a face that could scare an Orc. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/34 "2008-06-27T23:57:23Z")
Danish/Swedish/Norwegian/Icelandic/Faeroese equals Nordic… but yup. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/35 "2008-06-28T00:02:11Z")
Ethiopian woman are beautiful, so long as they’re not starving. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/36 "2008-06-28T00:02:58Z")
[QUOTE=WormTheRed] That’s simply because when we Nordics were Vikings we robbed all the beauties from the Brittish Isles and took them home with us 🆒 I even got an english friend who admitted to it being true when he was visiting [/QUOTE] So English teeth are your fault? :: ponders billing **WormTheRed** for the $1900 in dental bills coming up in the next three months :: :: also ponders reforming the British Empire (Northern and Eastern Europe have pleasant scenery this time of year) :: ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/37 "2008-06-28T00:09:10Z")
. . . and a face that could scare an Orc. op by cisco [Carly Smithson](http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0212/wolkside.jpg) I don’t think she’s ugly at all…but I do agree about the tattoos. I always thought the women from India were especially beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/38 "2008-06-28T00:13:42Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] So English teeth are your fault? :: ponders billing **WormTheRed** for the $1900 in dental bills coming up in the next three months :: :: also ponders reforming the British Empire (Northern and Eastern Europe have pleasant scenery this time of year) :: [/QUOTE] Well… there’s always this [video (nsfw)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyRmiaEOUw) on YouTube to prove my point 😛 And no, it’s your fault you couldn’t fight better a thousand years ago 😉 (yet again, sorry for hijack) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/39 "2008-06-28T00:31:16Z")
[QUOTE=WormTheRed] Well… there’s always this [video (nsfw)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyRmiaEOUw) on YouTube to prove my point 😛 And no, it’s your fault you couldn’t fight better a thousand years ago 😉 [/QUOTE] So what does it mean that my Swedish cousins and my English ancestors all came to Canada then, eh? 😃 Besides, that video displays selection bias. There are way more women in the Stockholm segment. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441/40 "2008-06-28T00:44:19Z")
Apparently, Sweden wasn’t as lovely a 100 as a 1000 years ago 🙂 (a serious answer takes way to long this late) And regarding the video, maybe they picked the fittest birds in both places and there just weren’t that many in Newcastle 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-women-from-eire-so-gorgeous/454441.md?page=3)