English & Irish apparently share the same origins
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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.
The Gaelic, Welsh and English languages all belong to a larger linguistic family called “Indo-European.”
However, this does not mean that the Irish, Scottish and Welsh people are closely related to the English. Nor does it mean that the Celts were the ancestors of most modern day Irish, Scotch and Welsh and the Anglo-Saxons, the ancestors of most modern English.
Anthropologic facts must be kept separate from linguistic facts.
The most updated information I’ve read indicates no relationship between the Irish and the Basques. However, the Irish and the Scotch do seem to have some genetic links to other Northern and Central European peoples (Norwegians, Lapps, Finns, Poles, Russian, Hungarians etc.) as well as to the Ancient Celts.
Brian, you need to read a bit more. The most recent DNA tests show a VERY strong link between Irish & Basque DNA. The same link is found throughout Britain, but to a lesser extent. Only a VERY small amount of English show Saxon DNA markers. I am not surprised by this. There were thriving large populations across these islands for thousands of years before any European ‘celt’ set foot here,and that most likely came from the basque area. Are we to believe the native tribes were totally annihilated by the celts? (And wouldn’t that then makes celts just as bad as those much-maligned Angles & Saxons??!!) Speaking of that, and where is the evidence of saxon slaughter of celts anyway? Bring me some bones!! I have seen evidence of possible neolithic warfare between tribes, I’ve seen celtic tribesmen with Roman balistae in their spines, I’ve seen what Boudicca did to Romans ,I know of mass graves where ’saxons’ fought Vikings. But nothing that shows there was any HUGE,widescale slaughter of celtic tribes by saxons; if the lands was cleansed we are talking of killing on a very large level,so surely there would be some evidence?!