NYT: English, Irish, Scots: They’re All One, Genes Suggest

[Kilted KT]

this isn't another attempt to grab up all the good scotch, is it?

[ccga3359]

Was Adam And Eve celtic? Or for those of us that lean the other way, when my dolphin ancestors took to the land were they celtic? I don't know the history of the MacDonalds & the Campbells but could it not have been started by two individuals that disliked each other?

[flairball]

I think this is an attempt to make the English not feel so bad about the Irish putting a hurting on them in the rugby six nations last weekend.

[AnimalK]

All this talk about Saxon violence...

[Beertigger]

I happen to be Scots, Welsh, Dutch, German, Polish, Austrian, Danish, French, Native American, Jewish, Rom, and Irish. (And I no doubt missed something in that list) It's the Irish I identify with.

I don't know that there's any political motivation behind academics' quarreling about the origins of the Gaels vs. the Saxons. Academics like to quarrel. They don't need any particular reason.

[An t-Ileach]

Was Adam And Eve celtic?...

According to the Gaels, Gaelic was indeed the language of the Garden of Eden and so they must have been

(and like with the Turks, being Celtic was a linguistic and cultural, not a racial, category).