5,000 year old DNA reveals the surprising origins of the Irish

Irish Central ^ | March 31, 2017 | Sandie Angulo Chen

[2ndDivisionVet]

I'm about 47% Scandinavian, with some Italian/Greek, Western and Eastern European and 2% North African.

[Reily]

Why hasn’t the alien guy weighed in on this?

[JPJones]

Ireland’s symbol, the Harp, is the same as King David’s...

[Oratam]

I was betting on the Levant. I was close.

[treetopsandroofs]

[exDemMom]

I had always heard that my great-grandma was half Cherokee. My genealogy research shows that she lived in Comanche territory, and that is where she raised my grandpa.

So, it is a little odd for a half Cherokee woman to live in Comanche territory, but not completely implausible.

But the Ancestry.com DNA analysis found no Native American ethnicity in my background. Instead, it shows southeastern African, the Bantu tribe. And I have compared the ethnicity results from enough relatives to figure out that great-grandma was the source of that ethnicity. I figure she claimed to be half Cherokee to hide the fact that she was a mulatto.

Oh, and I have Irish ancestors, as well.

[Az Joe]

Not true at all. The Irish are direct descendants of the Gods. That’s why they drink so much of the God’s nectar, beer.

[Nifster]

The Scythian and Lost Tribes

So the mythology is likely correct

[Bodleian_Girl]

What about the red headed mummies in China wearing plaid?

[sparklite2]

My mother and father were Irish,
so I guess I’m Irish stew.

[Aliska]

Lots of Scots-Irish but no Irish whatsoever. The two are different genetically, and it doesn't appear the two mixed when the Scots fled to N. Ireland.

English, German, French, some Spanish and Scandinavian going by my daughter's DNA analysis.

If it's not all based on mitochondrial DNA, the above might not hold completely true. And I didn't want ancestry with their TOS getting custody of my DNA.

[dljordan]

“Not true at all. The Irish are direct descendants of the Gods. That’s why they drink so much of the God’s nectar, beer.”

Slainte!

[blueunicorn6]

God looked down upon ta earth and was saddened by what he saw his children doing. So He wept and his tears fell on ta green hills of Ireland and created ta Irish folk.

At least that’s what my wife told me.

My Dad said the Irish were Spaniards who didn’t know how to use a compass.

[Az Joe]

“Croí folláin agus gob fliuch!”

(A heathy heart and a wet mouth!)

[yarddog]

Northern Irish are basically lowland Scots. They made great pioneers.

Highland Scots came from Ireland and settled in the Western Islands and the North of Scotland. They are also mixed with Norse.

[Az Joe]

Part of the Spanish Armada shipwrecked on the west coast of Ireland in 1588. The Irish killed almost all of them right away. We haven’t changed much.

[tbw2]

Best guess - that same Russian steppes group spreading along the grassy plains along the route that became the Silk Road.

[yarddog]

I think it is historically known that Celts were first recorded in known times as being in Galatea. Next they were in France and Germany then in Ireland.

The Scots were an Irish tribe.

[Aliska]

Thank you for that info. Yes, mine were very rugged pioneers in Pennsylvania mostly.

[Jonty30]

The Scots were not Irish. 😡