We are Irish. My mother was as blonde as any Scandinavian. She herself thinks she was a product of the Viking Rapes.
My father when he was young had the blackest of jet-black hair. Probably a member of the fabled “Black Irish” said to be descended from Spanish sailors who became stranded there.
When you’re an island the DNA comes in and out more or less like the seagulls.
The entire population of Europe was basically replaced since the fall of Rome. Today’s Greek population, for example, have little genetic connection to those of Aristotle’s contemporaries. People who go around blaming Europeans for colonialism don’t realize that they are not exclusive “victims”.
Interesting
It would have been interesting if they had extended the study to the south of Ireland. One would suspect that to the extent a Gaelic strain of DNA could be identified, it would be more evident there. As the other posts have pointed out, various peoples swept into and over all these places and merged with each other etc... over the many centuries, which is consistent with the study’s findings.
My ancestor, Bartholomew Weathersbee, came to America from Britain in 1616. A couple of my relatives have had DNA tests that indicated Norse origins, meaning, I guess, that my family is more Norman than Anglo-Saxon. I guess there is a good chance I had an ancestor fight in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
This is another article to English DNA possibly the same study. There is a lot of DNA information on the internet so you don't have to be a “scientist” to research your ancestry. DNA tests are less than $100 also.
You also had the Picts in Scotland, Vikings everywhere (Germanic), Normans (which were also Vikings), and there were probably others before the Celts.
Migrations were the order of the day back to pre-Roman times.
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Good old Alfred the Great.
“Not surprising for Britain, which has been invaded by so many different peoples”
Sicily is more “HEINZ” 57 variety I think....Pretty certain more “strangers” have floated thru / roun there than Britain....
It is rare that any group totally wipes out another. The women are usually spared and a number of the men are taken as slaves.
The Germanic tribes didn't have anything personal against the Celts, they just wanted their land.
Not to mention that the Celts and the Germanic tribes were related back in the misty past.
"The peoples of the British Isles, those we think of as being Celts, Picts, Britons, Welsh, Saxons, Jutes, Angles, Danes, Normans - although they became separated by language, local cultural traits and the passing of time, were all descendents of those first people, our mutual north European ancestors of the distant past. Despite the great passage of time and the periodical influx of kindred invaders, related to us by blood, and ruling elites, 80% of the modern British population can trace their genetic inheritance to the first settlers of these islands all those thousands of years ago. "
The return of the Beaker folk? Rethinking migration and population change in British prehistory