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no rainbows in DAZ studio, (environment dome HDRi's or props aside) so no pot of gold.
Carrara has a rainbow in the basic sky, we can chase down that lil green man and grab his stash!
that explains the whiskey
Australian here so wasn't aware
Don't see why they should. It's a holiday in Ireland, not here. We just conscripted it. I don't see a nationl sure for the Feast of San Gennaro, or Japan's Garasha Festival.
I don't see Irelandf celebrating the 4th of July, even though a lot of Irish took part in the war for independence.
..Joe
St. Patrick's day is pretty popular where I live in the states. And I'm always on the side of more celebration.
There is usually a parade, food, beer, pubs, and green things. Certainly more fun, than another Hollywood-style Egyptian female release.
Red haired Irish folk? Hmmmm my mom was Irish not a red head in the lot. Matter of fact I have many Irish friends not one is a red head, lots of blondes and dark headed, but no red heads. I've always wondered where the stereotype came from?
Now I've got an Norwegian buddy he's a red head and his two sisters too lol!
Ireland has the highest number of red-haired people per capita in the world with the percentage of those with red hair at around 10%. Great Britain also has a high percentage of people with red hair.
My family is Irish. I have dark brown hair but my mom, brother, sisters, grandpa, uncle and others are all red headed.
I am of Irish descent. I had brown hair. During summers in my youth, much of my hair would fade blonde. During winters and as I aged, the brown would get darker and seem more prevelant. My beard was a mixture of red and brown. Although a minority, I think reddish brown hair can be found across much of the North Atlantic fringe of Europe, and as RorrKonn points out, throughout Appalachia in North America where the Scotts-Irish settled.
Now, what remains of my hair is gray.
If you want an Egyptian connection, there is an old legend that an Egyptian Princess named Scota was a co-founder. The DNA for red hair has been found among some Egyptian mummies. Note, legends are called legends for a reason, but here is a fun read linking glorious Egypt and the founding of ancient Ireland.
https://celticraven.com/index.php/10-an-old-irish-legend-about-an-ancient-egyptian-princess
I think historically, the Irish tend to have dark or black hair. Red probably showed up with the Vikings, but I'm guessing ;).
Laurie
I have Irish blood from my Mother's side, but all the relatives I knew from that side of the family had brown hair. I have dark red hair, not carrot red (or did have before it faded to greyish) which came from my Father's side of the family. Father and elder brother also had the dark red hair. My Paternal Grandmother was a Cameron. I was always told I took after Grandma, although I actually don't remember her, she died when I was quite young.
Red hair is a recessive gene, and needs to be carried on both sides of the family for it to passed on, so my Irish relatives carried the gene, even if it hadn't come out in in my generation.
One of the maps of percent red hair in Europe. Nowhere is it the majority. Most common in British Isles but not a majority there.
Similar map of more countries confirms RorrKonn's point about hillbillies. See Appalachia where I circled has a red area. Interesting, part of Russia does as well. Anyone know what is up with that? Seems starkly separated from the Baltic.
I hear that some women dye their hair red, so I don't know if these maps are self-reported, or otherwise verfied. Hmmm.
I know nothing about my biological father's family (he was adopted and I haven't spoken to him in 20 years to get more info from him), so I did 23andMe to find out that I'm almost entirely Northern European...and I have brown hair and brown eyes (my mom has brown hair and brown eyes). In fact, pretty much everybody assumes I'm Italian even though there's not a drop in me.
my mother was a ginger and her ancestors Germanic
those redheads got around
+1
well, except for some not-peace on Thunder Road. https://youtu.be/sPZquUwEG-A
I used to take redheads for granted... I grew up in a town in Scotland and almost half of my classmates were ginger/redhead - had no idea at the time how rare it is from a global perspective.
I'm part Scottish, on my father's side of the family. But you won't find a red head here.
EDIT: There was a red head in our family. But he was a cat ^^
https://www.daz3d.com/rainbows
(I love your avatar).
What about German heritage? Wait, never mind, I take that back. Please, forget about us. The German-themed stuff you do see usually isn't stuff we're keen on being identified with.
I'm of German and Italian descent, so I have it coming and going, but only if we're talking somewhat recent history ;). There are a lot of great German composers, scientists, etc :). Of course, you could say that about any group of people I guess...lol. As for Irish heritage, on St. Patrick's Day, EVERYONE is Irish. Or at least they are after a few beers.
Laurie
What's wrong with Heidi, Dirndil und Lederhosen?
Why IIrish specifically????
I've never seen Frensh or Japanese or German or Russian or Congolese or Swedish or Italian or Iranian or Greek or Korean or Indian holidays being observed. And nor were there any bulls by the start of the Chinese year of the bull.
But we have seen Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas, Valentines, Men's Health Awareness Month, International Womens Day, Black History Month, Pride Month and ect., so why not celebrate the ONE holiday dedicated to Irish heritage here in the US?
And keep in mind, those others I've listed are just the main celebrations off the top of my head at 6AM EST with less than an hours worth of sleep in me, so my head is a bit foggy at the moment.
The point being here is that Daz had an opportunity to show support to the Irish community both here at Daz and the 3D marketplace as a whole, yet they chose not to in favor of marketing yet another egyptian bundle. Why? I don't know, maybe someone in their sales department thought that nothing screams Irish recognition more than Cleopratra, but whatever the case, it certainly doesn't feel right, nor fair.
(I will say though that I'm delighted by the many other users posts in this thread that show that love for the Irish is no stranger here)
First of all, Heidi is Swiss. And Dirndl and (especially) Lederhosen are only typical in a very small area in Germany. As for heritage, we can offer some very nice castles, churches, a couple of cities with medival or baroque city centers, to name a few.
And if celebrating St Patrick's, why not St George, St David & St Andrew too so as not to discriminate over parts of these soggy isles? England, Wales & Scotland also made a fair contribution to opening up the US and in purely numerical terms a bit more than from what is now Eire and was Britain, though it was a smaller percentage of the population. Didn't the Pilgrim Fathers come from England? Then we might as well get on to a few of the lesser saints, like St Ewe, St Just & St Ives. (All three have places named after them in Cornwall, so must be really important saints, surely?
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I used to have a partly ginger beard when it was the right length (and not growing out through black, brown then ginger and finally blonde). My mother & eldest daughter was and is ginger respectively. I think it comes from Scottish roots. However, I think American roots account for another source of ginger in our house - both of our Maine Coon cats are ginger & white.
Regards,
Richard
Daz is in the US. The US did not invent other those other Saints' days.