Stunning news I got to know from Dedanaan (excellent blog about Celtic culture), English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish may be much closer than they usually think, despite what historians say :
English descend from the Anglo-Saxons, Irish / Welsh / Scottish from the Celts.
Apparently, from a geneticist’s research, these “nations” would share a common ancestor. Genetic similarities are apparently striking between these people.
From this featured article, 3/4 of the ancestors of today’s British and Irish populations would have arrived 15,000 to 7,500 years ago from Spain, speaking a language related to Basque. A genetic pool where newcomers (Celts & Anglo-Saxons) had a small (genetic) impact on, due to a limited number of immigrants.
Everyone who knows a bit about inhabitants from these Isles, could say how much different these people feel from each other. Maybe is it because they are so alike, they shared so many bloody wars.
