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Irish DNA

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  • 29-01-2016 4:15pm
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    Linnaeus
    Registered Users Posts: 218 ✭✭


    Here's an interesting link:

    www.pri.org/stories/2015-12-30/dna-solves-mysteries-ancient-ireland

    I had read previously that the original homeland of the Celts was Central Europe...the area which is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia...but the connection with the Fertile Crescent is surprising.


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    Manach
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    If true, this will challenge held assumptions on the origins of the forerunners of the Irish. My understadning, based on The Celts by Nora Chadwick, is that as the OP stated the Middle-European/Danube basin is their ancestral heartland based on language and burial evidence.


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    Linnaeus
    Registered Users Posts: 218 ✭✭Linnaeus


    Hello Manach,

    One of the most interesting and most curious old Irish "universal histories" is the Lebor Gabala Erenn, composed in a lively style in the early Middle Ages. Here, at least, we have an account which would place the origin of the Gaels precisely in the Middle East. Fanciful as this may seem, who knows? There might be some remote substratum of truth in it.

    At any rate, it seems that Ireland was populated gradually, by diverse waves of settlers coming from distant lands. The Gaels, however, impressed their vitality and creativity upon the Emerald Isle as no people have done before or since.


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