Just who are the Irish, anyway?

[Reiver]

Triple Blessed,
The majority of DNA and recent research does support a migration from the south to the North thru the isle's. How far back this is traceable I've no idea.


My interest is the 'new' thesis that the Scots are not a result of Irish invasion but a specific Celt speaking group unto themselves....part of that south to north movement from the coast thru the isle's.

[TheMcManus]

My mothers side of the tree is Irish, traced back to around 940... There are a good number of olive skinned family members, with a constant hint of Mediterranean features that crop up quite often in old pics and texts. An interesting bag, ancestry is

The Melisian Celts would not have been any more olive skinned and mediterranean looking than the celts of Galatia today, or the Indo Aryan tribes that they came from.
Maybe you have Greek or something in the family.

[GrainReaper]

The Melisian Celts would not have been any more olive skinned and mediterranean looking than the celts of Galatia today, or the Indo Aryan tribes that they came from.
Maybe you have Greek or something in the family.

Oddly enough DNA results have come back, Greek/Mediterranean is there, as well as Spanish, Welsh, French, Russian..... Really a sieved together mix of all of Europe.