John Hurt Admits Sadness At His Faked Irish Ancestry

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 9-12-2007 | Tom Peterkin

[muawiyah]

Place-name surnames can be very misleading. We've found ours in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, Cornwall, Brittany, Normandy, (and several other places in France), Spain, North Africa, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia.

There's a noble name that goes along with the surname and that can be found all over the place as well.

Fortunately as of 700BC the name was found ONLY in Spain. By the 1400s it was also found in Brittany and France. By the end of the 1600s it could be discovered all over Europe as far from the King of France as was possible (because he was killing them off). By the end of the Napoleonic Wars (circa 1812) the name again concentrated in one place, New York (where American, Scandinavian and French branches coalesced), and then spread to Indiana and Florida. More recently almost everyone with the Spanish version of the surname/placename fled from Cuba to Florida and Mexico.

Even more recently a couple of them showed up in Southern Indiana as illegal aliens and got busted for drunk driving.

You just never know.

[blam]

"Wow, what a link. My mom was born in County Cork. Can I get my genes mapped, or is this something cost-prohibitive?"

I got mine done here at : National Geographic Genographic Project for $107.50 each.
Y-chromosome DNA (male) and mtDNA (female).

I found out my dad was Irish (R1b) and my mother ('V') was a Skolt Sa'ami (Laplander).

I just read a book by Spencer Wells who is running the DNA project at National Geographic and he says with 160,000 (mostly European) samples completed, there have been on suprises, nothing unexpected (like maybe Neanderthal genes, etc) so far.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***LOL! The parody of that scene in Spaceballs was hilarious!***

Hello my honey hello my baby hello my rag-time-gal....

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

You mean Caligula is not Irish?

[FortWorthPatriot]

"John Hurt Admits Sadness At His Faked Irish Ancestry"

I'm a little miffed at the headline - it implies that Mr. Hurt deliberately faked having an Irish ancentry. But he didn't - he simply believed his family forklore over all these years until science proved it wrong.

Typical liberal trashing, I suppose.

[FortWorthPatriot]

ancentry = ancestry. (It’s been a long day)

[bajabaja]

I just read a book by Spencer Wells who is running the DNA project at National Geographic and he says with 160,000 (mostly European) samples completed, there have been on suprises, nothing unexpected (like maybe Neanderthal genes, etc) so far.

Thanks for that helpful, interesting link. I will have the test run. My ex-girlfriend said I was a Neanderthal. (She's a liberal. And I have a lot of body hair.)

[hsalaw]

Oh, good grief. Who cares about some Hollyweirdo’s imaginary ancestry? Now, if it were a politician, that would be different. Like John F’n Kerry, who I believe is both Jewish AND Irish.

[MK11]

I’m a little miffed at the headline

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Put a comma between ‘hurt’ and ‘admits’ and you have a story about John Kerry.

[gcruse]

“Marquis of Sligo’

There’s a namesake North Carolina town of Sligo.
Even better is the neighboring ville of Moyock.

[decimon]

...his family hails from Croydon, south London.

You're a yob!

[dighton]

Oh well, he’s not a real Roman either.

[billbears]

No it was faked, he just didn't know it. Doesn't take anything away from him whatsoever. He played an excellent government official in V.

I love this show though, especially liked the one with David Tennant. It was interesting to see him so out of character.

[bajabaja]

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:CEpsguUqaGgJ:www.nationalreview.com/mgraham/graham200403170834.asp+john+kerry+irish+austrian&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2

No, Kerry is NOT Irish, hsalaw. He did, however, at times wish to create that impression.

[blam]

Famous DNA

Ancient DNA

[hsalaw]

Thanks for the link - it was hilarious. I particularly like this part: perhaps that's just part of the Kerry English/Austrian/Jewish/French/African-American charm.

[toddlintown]

“On the other hand, Barry O’Bama’s as Irish as Paddy’s pig.”

Smoked Irish, for sure.

[utahagen]

John Hurt’s a fag, so he must be British.

[SunkenCiv]

He DNA pass the test.

[RobbyS]

Al Smith’s family on his father’s side was Italian. His name was changed when the customs officer couldn’t spell the Italian name.