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To: neverdem; aculeus; Colosis; Black Line; Cucullain; SomeguyfromIreland; Youngblood; Fergal; Cian; ...
But geneticists who have tested DNA throughout the British Isles are edging toward a different conclusion. Many are struck by the overall genetic similarities, leading some to claim that both Britain and Ireland have been inhabited for thousands of years by a single people that have remained in the majority, with only minor additions from later invaders like Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Vikings and Normans.

WTH?? I accept that the peoples of these islands are more or less ethnically, if not culturally, homogenous, but this is a bizarre claim - the notion that Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Normans, Vikings and Romans are only a minority of the genetic make up???

Ireland Ping!

40 posted on 03/07/2007 3:52:31 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (Apathy is one of the most dangerous ideologies in existence!)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

The Vikings, and later the Brits, never really had much control "beyond the pale." Thus it's the Dubs with the most Viking blood.


41 posted on 03/07/2007 4:06:28 PM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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