Scientists Reveal Surprising Irish DNA and Surnames Link

An in-depth analysis on what makes Irish Genetics so unique.

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Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
1:14 - Early Irish DNA
1:54 - Where they came from
4:46 - Myth and Science
9:16 - Genetic Relatives
10:55 - DNA and Surnames Link
12:33 - Irish and British DNA
15:07 - Irish and Scottish DNA
15:59 - Irish DNA Characteristics
16:41 - Who are Black Irish

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[theunleashed]

Mr grandfather was from Ireland who's family lived in Ireland for generations. His last name was Legg, derived from the ancient Norse surname Legg'r meaning; swift runner or one who runs fast. There is definitively a Nordic presence in both genetics and cultural adoptions into Irish Celtic life.

[janekinnane]

The term black irish refers to people with very pale skin, blue eyes, and black hair usually from the west of Ireland, not dark skin

[eleanorchapple]

I lived up the river Bann from Coleraine. I lived on a farm beside the river across from present day Kilrea. On that farm the fields were so covered in flints that as I child I thought of them as rocks. We collected shoeboxes of the more interesting ones . My father in the thirties or early forties found a large urn. In it was a skeleton. An archaeologist by the name of Evan’s came and took it away apparently to the museum in Belfast. There were many enormous stones about our house. In fact one of them formed a corner stone. Several of the seem to form an arc as if there may have been a circle there at one time. More recently when my brother was trying to flatten a steep hill he found a twenty foot ‘ash wand’. Apparently these are formed when people over centuries burn fires in the same place: a century for every foot of ash.

[deaddocreallydeaddoc]

It has never been a secret that Vikings settled in Ireland early is not a secret. Dublin was founded by Vikings in 800. Waterford is from a Norwegian word "Vaterfiorrd, " and so on. Indo-Europeans migrated after the Ice Age into the north. They fanned out. England was Celtic before the Anglo-Saxons arrived. Spain was settled by Celto-Iberians. The region of Galatia in Northern Spain is also no secret. Celtic Brittany is a remnant of Celtic Gauls, who Julius Caesar conquered and exterminated some tribes entirely. Celtic languages come from the larger Indo-European language group that includes the Germanic languages, Latin, and even Indo-Aryan.
The conclusion of this video may be to impress on the unaware listener with the idea that Irish (and Celts, etc.) are a mixed people so the current EU practice of flooding Ireland with people from Africa and the Middle East is no big deal. But it is threatening the survival of the Irish people and their culture. 20% of the population of Ireland today are non-Europeans, let alone not Irish. The crime waves this has brought to Ireland, once one of the safest places in Europe, is a sad event. The majority of Irish people are rising up, as are the English against this seemingly planned replacement.

[deaddocreallydeaddoc]

The idea and claim of African Irish is completely false, especially when it comes to Barbados and the Caribbeans of Irish descent. In the case of Barbados, it was a result of Cromwell sending 50, 000 Irish men, women, and children to Bardbados into perpetual slavery as part of his purge of the Irish from Ireland in the 17th century. The Irish women were raped in the fields by their black overseers in the most humiliating ways. You can read Calahan's "To Hell of Barbados, " for the full story. The "Redlegs" of Barbados were never freed and today, the remnant remains the most impoverished group on the Island.

[roxannefrench]

My Old Testament professor maintained that the Lost Tribe of Israel ended up in Ireland. My very curly hair, inherited from my Irish grandmother, may hint at this possibility.

[jackieblue]

Irish language is not pronounced phonetically or like English. You are really pushing that Spanish link. The R1b that is majority in Ireland is R1b-L21 while in Spain they have a more varied ydna and the largest R1b ydna in Spain is R1b-DF27. R1b-DF27 is closest to R1b-U152 these two clades appear to be brother clades. All R1b in Europe was spread by Bell Beakers. It's not a particulary Spanish-Irish link. Irish and Spanish are very distant genetically and especially Basque are very distant to the Irish. No modern dna study as you have claimed push this link. Irish are indeed close to Scots and Welsh but not Spanish or Basque people. I have mentioned this in previous videos. R1b is also not from Stone Age populations but is from the Steppes. You are giving out incorrect information. I think the problem is you are quoting old dna studies that have been debunked with more recent dna studies. You need to look at modern dna studies and not old and outdated studies which are no longer relevant. Cheers.

[deborahhanley]

My maternal, Polish ancestors referred to my father as “Black Irish.” No one had any explanation of why. As a child I took it to mean something bad, not good. They did not want my mother to marry him. As an adult, I spent time in Spain while traveling with my oldest sister. I was awestruck by the resemblance between her and many of the Spanish women we saw in public. I made the connection but this is the first time I have heard a scientific explanation which has verified my intuition on the topic. Thank you very much. Great work on this video.

[eh]

The three early-Beaker guys buried on Rathlin island between the two coasts are the same paternal lineage as most of the men in both countries. The earlier one was possibly in the first or second generation of steppe-derived people to reach these islands. So migration and back-migration between Ireland and Scotland has been so constant it’s just stupid to even call it migration. Kintyre and Galloway are to the Antrim coast like New Jersey is to Manhattan. They never were separate populations; that is an anachronistic concept born of modern assumptions about distance and remoteness. Roads didn’t exist — the sea was the highway and the freight route! It connected people between the islands far more effectively than they connected with people across much smaller distances on land.

[Alan-lvrw]

I just found out I’m 50% Scandinavian, 30% English/Irish, and 20% German/Dutch. We knew about all of it except the Irish part. That was a fun surprise. Edit: and I’m also a fifth generation American (NYC).

[richern]

What people do not realize is that the Anatolian Farmers of the Neolithic basically left Anatolia and those who remained were replaced by other groups in the Middle East. The people of Turkey today have very little Anatolian Neolithic Farmer ancestry left. The Sardinians are the closest population to the Anatolian Neolithic Farmers. Closer than any current population of that area.

[kerbearlynch]

I'm from County Derry, and in my daddy's families farm there are burial grounds of the vikings in a few field's just above my granny and granda's old house. They seem to be in the separations of the field's.

[RobertBarbee-xr]

I enjoyed the video! It’s interesting how some that comment are certain they know the absolute truth, and the true story of our origins. One thing is certain humans will always find a way to argue about it. Modern genetics gives us a little more pieces of the puzzle, and I feel that we are beginning to piece together the more modern bits of our family history, But the regions are vast and the migrations took place over tens of thousands of years. It seems reasonable that as we traveled over those distances and through time we established tribes, and over that time those tribes grew and blended with others. Anyway, Ciao to all my cousins here and out there from this from the States.

[bombfog]

I appreciate the information but, man, the use of an AI narrator is so grating.

[happykt]

My grandmother was Ukrainian/Polish and had red hair and freckled skin. I find it fascinating that the Irish are partially descended from people in this region.

[terrioestreich]

A big part of my family's heritage is Irish. My family is HUGE! About 60% are red heads ( both brown and blue eyes) and the 40% are olive skinned, dark hair and dark eyes. I always wondered how those two coloring could exist together, now I know!!

[thiafalcone]

I wish they would stop referring to Scotland as British. It's not.

[eh]

By the way, there are dumps of raw flint from Scotland on the Irish coast from the middle neolithic. Because it was more convenient to boat across and get it by the ton than to footslog the same distance within Ireland and carry it in packs. Just stop wittering on about “migration” when you’re talking about people who were anyway maritime travellers travelling less than 20 miles.

[MH-tnpp]

Red haired people come from the Ulmurt in Russia 🇷🇺, where 85 % carry this gene and have orange hair. And they are mixed with people from Middle East and Celts as well. They gave some very ancient DNA from Central Europe (Scotts, Welsh, Irish have traces of Polish archaic DNA).

[freshmanna]

I find this information highly compelling. I have spent much time in Ukraine where people have remarked that I look quite Ukrainian. Moreover in my visit to a historical museum in Kiev I was astonished to learn that many of the earliest people to settle in Ukraine were Celts. Their nomadic tendencies also make sense to me because my family often laughs at the strong bit of wanderlust that seems to be resident in all of us.