[Celtic Conservative]

"I guess I'm stupid. I thought this was the way it worked all along. I didn't realize it was a controversy"

Same here. And the link to spain has long been known to scientists as well. Most believe the Irish and scots are related to a celtic people inhabiting the spanish peninsula who emigrated to the British isles roughly 2500 to 2800 years ago. They are called the celtiberians. Nothing new from what I have read on the subject for years.

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[muawiyah]

The "Celtiberians" are a different folk. The Basques and the proto-Irish were not Celtic at all. The Celtic language has been imposed on the Irish by conquest, and apparantly more than once!

The latest Celtic conquest occurred about 700 BC when the sons of Mir (the three brothers) sailed to what is now Ireland and named it Scotia, after their great goddess called Scota.

These folks had come from the Black Sea area to Spain at about the same time as the creation of Solomon's Israel (if you want a Biblical frame of reference).

The Celtiberian people (who lived much further South) were subjected to genocide by a Roman general who was tried for his crimes.