You can read more details here: What we can take from all of this is that, although the Irish today feel part of a single group united by cultural and national identity, this culture and identity is ultimately founded on waves of migration connecting the island to the wider world of European peoples and beyond.Today, people living the north of Spain in the region known as the Basque Country share many DNA traits with the Irish. The Duke of Brittany and the Duke of Normandy married each other's sisters and promised to protect each other's heirs.By 1066, when Harold was appointed King of England and demoted many Bretons and Normans who had reach high station there, Count Eozen of Brittany and Duke William of Normandy had formed a military alliance. So why the mixed style? This coincides with the time of the famous Irish king Niall of the Nine Hostages, who legend says brought St Patrick to Ireland as a slave. I haven't looked much into my cultural history but wow. Also that many Danes and Norwegians came across to England and settled here.BigBlue your reference to Welsh Ap being akin to Irish O is off. This nationalism is often accompanied by a general distaste for bureaucratic authority, and indeed authority of any kind, although the Irish will typically accept it when necessary.The majority of Irish people tend to avoid loud, obnoxious or pretentious behavior. So, even if R1B1 is quite dominant in Ireland, Wales, and the Basque region, it doesn't mean that those people share anything like the exact same DNA. Well, my siblings and I bough the a 23andme kit for my mum for Christmas this last year.Mum has just gotten her results, and because the DNA follows the maternal line, we have confirmation that we come from the Basques!! In fact of those three invading groups, only the Moors had much of a genetic effect on the Iberians as a whole.
Old Barbarian German was lost there.
Gedmatch.com has allowed me to compare my DNA against my Mother's so I could learn what I didn't get from her and what part of I got from my Dad, like his African, Middle Eastern and Native American.I just had a DNA test done and I was shocked to find out that I had 13% Iberian Peninsula but only 11% Ireland even though my 3rd great grandmother was born in Ireland. The Breton Court and many other Bretons fled to the England of Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great. After their defeat by the Bretons, the Franks thought they'd be clever and hire Vikings to attack Brittany. The French King then felt it was safe to return home.The Seine Vikings began to take serious notice of this, and they and the Bretons began to form an accommodation. Her mother's family were Ulster-Scots, I assume, from name and religion, and they were members of the mythical Black Irish tribe: they had black hair and eyes and olive complexions. The first known use of "England" to refer to the southern part of the island of Great Britain occurs in 897. O'Connolly septs (large family groups or clans) were common in the west of Ireland. His faith, his place of birth?
This despite the arrival of the railways.Also read an article recently which stated that the English are closed to the Danes rather than the Dutch or the Germans. It's easy to trace the line back through the generations in America, but once in Ireland, the trail goes cold. Those who identify as Irish or as having Irish ancestry usually refer to family lines that originate in Ireland, an island nation in the Atlantic ocean, off the coasts of England and Scotland. On a trip to Portugal, however, I was astounded by the similarities. My father has always referred to the dark haired Irish as Black Irish making reference to Irish with Spanish roots.Quite interesting, Marie. Iberian was mentioned on my pg. The obvious similarities of culture, pale skin, tendency to red hair have historically been prescribed to the two people's sharing a common Celtic ancestry. I know of a village not far from me which has two. I bow before you!Very interesting - On one genealogy branch I can trace my Scot-Irish roots back to the Crusades, but I had not heard the Basque connection (although it does make sense. The Franks pushed the boundaries of independent Armorica far westward, but they were never able to completely conquer it. The Chapmans of Whitby on the north coast of Yorkshire were merchants, bankers and shipbuilders in the 1800s; they are recorded there, *with that surname* and in maritime trade, in about AD 400. The Vikings were now free to pillage France wherever and whenever they liked.