[Wallace T.]

Irish legends and genetic markers indicate that people from northern Spain were among the first settlers of Ireland, centuries before the Celts arrived. The western Irish have a high degree of genetic markers in common with the Basques, and like the Basques have a very high proportion of Type O blood. This similarity is less evident in eastern Ireland or Scotland, where Celtic, Norman, and English ancestry are more prevalent. However, the Welsh also have similar markers showing linkage with the Basques.

The northern Spanish, notably in Galicia and Asturias, often look nothing like the Spanish stereotype. Many could pass as locals in Glasgow, Cork, or Swansea.

Until the late 19th Century, there was little, if any, Eastern European Jewish settlement in the British Isles. Most of the Jews who entered Britain or Ireland after the revocation of their expulsion under Cromwell were Sephardic or German Jews, who settled in small numbers, and then mostly in the English cities. The odds of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Century emigres from the British Isles having Jewish ancestry were very small.

[Hawthorn]

>> The northern Spanish, notably in Galicia and Asturias, often look nothing like the Spanish stereotype <<

They also like to play the bagpipes!