[GOP Poet]

I’ve known for sometime that the Irish DNA is closet to the Basque people (a distinct culture and DNA unto itself in Northern Spain/Southern France) as is the language structure. This arena is an exciting area that more will continue to unfold. Thanks so much for posting!!

[Wallace T.]

If you look at the map in the Washington Post article, it appears that the DNA from the bones comes closest to those of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Cornwall, the traditional Celtic fringe of the British Isles, and England, decreasingly as you go eastward, the French and Belgian coasts, and, unusually, central Germany. The Basque country has no more relation to this DNA than do the Balkans or Turkey. Galicia, Portugal, and western Spain have more common DNA with the 4,000 year old Irishman than the Basque country.

[madison10]

Iberian Peninsula? That’s where my husband’s DNA tracks from. Well that and Scandinavia to mention another. All-American with very strong Scot roots.