Being of northern Spanish decent, we have known that we have the same DNA of the Irish for a long time. So nice that the other side is picking it up.
That is very interesting-to the best of my knowledge, I’ve no Irish or Scottish ancestors. However-my Spanish ancestors came from the Pyrenees, and were Basques-many of us still carry the original surname of those who came to the New World in the 1500’s from that part of Spain.
By the late 1700’s, most of the family had mated and married with settlers from other areas of Spain, Native Americans, moved to south Texas, and then intermarried with a couple of Creoles from Louisiana, a West Prussian or two in the early 1800’s...
And after all that mixing, dark red hair, gray/green eyes with lighter skin is still fairly common in my family (I have that look.) If the information in this article is correct, then those original genes are some powerful ones to have that kind of staying power...