Scientists Reveal Surprising Origins of Irish Genetics

[@devonseamoor]

As a Dutchy, I've lived in Devon UK and in N. Ireland. To me, it was clear that the difference between those 2 groups of islanders is huge. In appearances, character, and attitude. Of course, cultural influences play a role as well, but I hardly encountered that typical complacent attitude of the English, on the lower side much suppressed by the class system, in Irish people. Many Irish have fire in their blood, they're fighters, ready to act, and help, witty, especially in the North. Many Britons seem to have lost their sparkle, grow depressed and much dumbed down as well, since Thatcher's iron regime. 👩‍🌾🖐

[@harrietharlow9929]

This explains so much about the results of my DNA test. It's literally a map of Britain and Ireland and this video answers a lot of questions. I was adopted so am only learning about my heritage late in life. Thank you for putting this up.

[@Josephmalenab]

I was raised in a Filipino white mixed family I was the odd one thank to DNA testing my father who wasn't my father I was so relieved my whole family was dysfunctional I thank heaven that I worship ancestors my ancestors but I still have cultural influence on me by my ex father I don't know about my true father but I know about the people the ancestors and cultures languages and where my ancestors came from though out times from prehistory to recent history I have come to peace with all Ancestors I was a bastard and my mother was married to my ex father some how I have pride l thought that I was mixed but I white I love all my ancestors peace

[@jeanmackenzie4781]

U mean celtic 😊

[@Fuphyter]

I'm a mutt, many different nationalities, or so I thought. I grew up on the eastern tip of Long Island. My family has been there since the 1700s. I had a dna test done and I'm 79% Irish/Scottish!

[@johnnywatkins]

I’m Irish, lived here all my life, and your family can live another 300 years in Long Island, end up with 2% Irish DNA, they’ll still be 100% Irish to me!

[@frank-y8n]

I remember an article I read long ago that said people from North East Ulster went on Sundays by boat to the fronting Scottish coast and the other way round to go to church, to meet their family, to marry, until in the 1920's the Scots were connected much better by the bus line from Glasgow.

[@johnpatrick5307]

@@frank-y8n 20 miles?

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

I would say that at least 4,000 years ago the Bell Beaker people turned up who make up most modern Irish people now. R-M269 like me. My surname means Son of Olaf but we are a Gaelic Tuath

[@washerdryer3466]

This report is already out of date.The author of that 2017 viking DNA in Ireland report (Edmund Gilbert) has recently revised the figure of Norwegian DNA in Ireland downwards saying the data interpretation and methodology used was wrong.There is much less viking DNA in Ireland than in Scotland and Scottish isles. "In contrast (with Scotland/Scottish Isles) the Norwegian-looking ancestry in Ireland is minimal" he said.

[@saskiakneulman7275]

In the beginning of this video it is said that the infuence of 'Viking DNA' is small, and halfway it is said that it is important. Quite confusing, to me it sounds like an AI made up abracadabra. Poor children that have to grow up with information like this.

[@washerdryer3466]

@@saskiakneulman7275 Yes. Misinformation now appears to have become the standard on KZbin. It really is appalling.

[@KewKew-do3kq]

Normans are Norwegian? Names like burke are very common

[@michaelboyle5805]

​@@KewKew-do3kq Norman's are from Normandy in France

[@KewKew-do3kq]

@@michaelboyle5805 ya but they came from Norway ?

[@Paul-i9k3x]

People like me who are involved in Celtic Studies, like me. Already knew this. But thank you for this post.

[@nbenefiel]

I did Celtic studies at UCD back before we had DNA. This is fascinating.

[@jasonsewell7150]

11 generations ago in ulsters change is less likely Vikings and more like the plantation

[@dechannigan2980]

Oliver Cromwell banished the native Irish to the western province of Connacht. .and English settlers were installed east of the river Shannon. . So I'd imagine some of their DNA would have survived here. . Counties Offaly and laois were renamed Kings county and Queens county. .

[@davidpryle3935]

@dechannigan. The Irish landowners of the time were banished to Connaught, not the ordinary peasants. The “hewers of wood and the drawers of water” were still required to do the work on the land, so the new landowners could “enjoy” the fruits of their new estates.

[@nbenefiel]

@@davidpryle3935 Cromwell wrote to Henry that no Irish will raise his head again.

[@gopherlyn]

While my paternal grandmother (Jane Rankin Rennick) was born in the Glasgow area of Scotland, her paternal grandfather (John Rennick) and his parents (Richard Rennick and Chritiana Madill) migrated from Co. Monaghan in Ireland. From my research it looks like they migrated to Scotland during the Irish Potato Famine.

[@mbd6054]

Rennick is an English name, and Madill is Scottish. Neither name is Irish. Madill is a variant of the Scottish McDowell. Your ancestors may have been planters who came to Ireland during the English plantations.

[@ClaraLaragh]

Genocide not a famine

[@thiafalcone2622]

Not a rare story

[@ClaraLaragh]

Do you have a link to this scientific study this video is based on? 13 minutes in and it's coming across like propaganda for the continued partition of Ireland and the notion that the people of Ireland North and South are different breeds. Happy to stand corrected if you can provide me with a link to the source of the study

[@alunevans380]

Of course there will be much similarity between Northern Ireland and Western Scotland people they are right next to each other only a few miles between them, you'll find this with the whole of the British isles and Ireland to a large extent, they've been mixing together for thousands of years.

[@Mary-wo5ln]

They lived in parallel but did not intermarry much. One category was the indigenous, Gaelic speaking Gaels. The other was the planted who were English speaking. The Irish were Catholic and landless due to imperial policy in Ireland, the planted were Protestant and privileged.

[@tamariskbeitz303]

That's epic to know. I'm Germanic, Irish & need to do my DNA. Lol So cool 🎉💜✌️🩵💛🧡❤️🩷🥳

[@catherinewilson1079]

Wow! That family of women just look SO IDENTICAL!!!

[@ArsonFire00]

5:23 Connaught isn't pronounced "Connit"! It's Connukt. Choosing an Irish narrator would have made more sense, for this video.

[@TheShamwari]

Please = why can we not have a map or two of the areas under diacusion ?

[@johno7149]

No mention of the latest Yamnaya genetic discoveries. The invasion of the British Isles around 4000 years ago led to a change in population of over 90%. With only 10% of (the peoples who built stonehenge) the original inhabitants from the female DNA.

[@alunevans380]

That sounds like a massive over exaggeration, a 90% wipe out how do they know this? It was probably a big change but 90% seems a lot, and it was nearer 5,000 years ago when the Yamnaya first went to Britain they came from the Steppes of modern day Russia and Ukraine. Indigenous People in the British Isles today have a significant amount of Yamnaya DNA, which is estimated to be around 10-13%. This genetic influence comes from the Yamnaya people, who were ancient herders that migrated into Europe around 5,000 years ago. The Yamnaya migration had a profound impact on the genetic makeup of many European populations, including those in the British Isles. This genetic legacy is part of what shaped the modern genetic landscape of the region.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@alunevans380- Recent evidence suggests massive disease preceded the Yamnaya, wiping out much of the western European population. Pretty much the same thing happened in the Americas around 1500. The Yamnaya were a pastoralist folk with a meat and milk diet that also made them physically much taller and stronger than western European populations.

[@johno7149]

KZbin David Reich Harvard genealogist and listen to one of his lectures. It changes our knowledge of history

[@miriamwells35]

I had Russian and Anatolian DNA in my ancestry test. Also minute amounts of African and Middle Eastern DNA which constitutes the 2% of me that isn’t European. Very little Scandinavian.

[@PatrickMurphy-z1k]

@miriamwells35 well, there are linguistic studies that suggest the celtic languages may have originated from a sematic language given the fact Irish is a VSO language and has only three cases, the normative, generative and dative cases just like Hebrew. Arabic and tamazigh in North Africa. But who knows.

[@alunevans380]

Why no mention of the Celts?

[@Martin-tn5lm]

The Gaelic Language & Culture was brought from Ireland to Western Scotland and some of the Scottish islands. When the High King of Ireland banished St. Colm Cille from Ireland, he ordered that he could never set food on Irish land again. He fled to Iona, a monastic islaned owned by his clann/Tribe. He did return once to Ireland in order to attenend the funeral of a friend but he filled his footwear with Iona soil and thus did NOT walk on Irish soil.

[@eisirt55]

Eleven genrrstions brings us back , msybe , to the plantstion of Ulster in the 17th Century , nowhere near the Viking age .

[@normanstewart7130]

Not a single mention of the term "Celtic" in this video.

[@judylukehart6854]

Well which is it? First the Vikings are not significant contributors to Irish genetics then they are significant contributors.

[@sharitelek5963]

Ya, I found that strange!

[@sharitelek5963]

My father was Irish. Not my mother. And yet, I had my DNA done and I am 62 % Irish. No Viking or Scottish. My mother was from Slovakia.

[@mariaashot5648]

The visual components of this video are very appealing and interesting to watch. However, the spoken text is extremely repetitive and therefore becomes tedious. Too many times repeating the same basic message in a variety of phrasings, without actually delving into the nuances, e.g. haplo groups, etc. You could have done it in 3 minutes, honestly.

[@danielferguson3784]

But much of this 'French' ancestry is from 'germanic' areas, like Belgium to Denmark, the same area the Anglo-Saxons & 'vikings' , came from. If course the very earliest people in Ireland also came from Europe, as did the Bronze Age metal workers, but some came from the south along the coast ultimately from Spain, while others more from the north, Scandinavia, Denmark & Germany. Significant trade & migrations along the Atlantic, coastal regions have been ongoing throughout all this time, in both directions, creating a genetic, linguistic, & cultural mix, but also left some isolated pockets of less diversity here & there. Further east, in Britain the same Atlantic movement occurred, but mostly affecting the western parts, while in the east the connections were always more across the North Sea & Channel, as is natural. This means 'England', from a very early date, in the Bronze Age, was always more 'germanic', with a 'celtic' region confined mostly in the west. The 'English' language & people did not simply appear or arrive in the 5th century, their development began, within Britain long before that .

[@jackieblue1267]

What is Celtic in this? It isn't Continental Celtic as Irish are NW Europeans. Irish have very little Continental Celtic dna. The Breton connection is also due to Bronze Age affinity. The Bretons are the most influenced by Bronze Age migration than other parts of France. Also even now Irish and British (including the English) cluster together.

[@johnpatrick5307]

Britain was colonised by Early European Farmers, bringing Welsh language - so they are more southern European than Northern. See: mass migrations into late bronze age Britain.

[@jamesconnor1465]

Am 2nd generation Irish but traced origin of Scottish family names 2 surnames have me as Anglo Saxon another two surnames have my ancestors as Dal riata , Pictish, Norman, Breton, that coming from my Granny's maiden name Reid ancestry except one my granny maiden name Duncan from my mother's surname was Howson origin Normandy, but my Irish Republican Ancestry equally important, you may have some Berber dna some of you look it up.

[@miriamwells35]

I have Dal Riata on my mum’s side (McBurney) and also minute amounts of African, Anatolian and Russian Caucases.

[@jamesconnor1465]

@@miriamwells35 Aye that's ancient ancestry then Pictish came from the black north east of black sea it's in the Scottish Arbroath declaration by king Robert the Bruce and signed by all the Lords of Scotland The same as you have written ancient origin .

[@miriamwells35]

@@jamesconnor1465 Yes, noone picks Irish ancestry. I get Middle Eastern and Spanish/Greek/Italian a lot. We have Reids too

[@krunomrki]

If I 've heard correctly "11 generations" ago? It could not be the Viking age, because one century has 4 generations at least (in past it was even 5 generations per century). So, 11 generations it would be 3 centuries ago, what gives 18th century.

[@johnpurcell7525]

Seem to miss out the Iron age and the Celts very strange

[@auldfouter8661]

He says the Viking age corresponds to 11 generations ago, That would be only about 300 years in the past. Does he mean 11 centuries ago? Say c900 AD ,which sounds better.

[@eisirt55]

I also commwnted on this .

[@jessicabrown7274]

Video would be greatly enhanced by maps with arrows showing flow from one area to another. 7:20 The Scorpion King invades Ireland! The narrator mispronounced Irish names.

[@pjmcgoldrick1967]

So much of this is repetitive and contradictory twaddle. There is hardly a trace of Viking DNA in the Irish population, as he first admitted before then describing it as significant. I have one Viking marker out of a thousand in my DNA, which accords with everything I've read on the subject of the lack of Viking influence on Irish DNA. The 11 generations ago change in the DNA of the northeast of Ireland accords with the Plantation of Ulster started by James l of England. These people were not Irish but mostly lowland Scots and English - to describe it as Irish DNA is inaccurate. Decent effort but must do better.

[@colmanlong1032]

Correct

[@tobyplumlee7602]

@@pjmcgoldrick1967 correct. Thank you for telling it like it is.

[@artiedoe]

@@tobyplumlee7602and what dna does scots and english have? 😂

[@geniemarie7977]

😅 I got Scot Irish n English

[@tobyplumlee7602]

@@artiedoethe DNA that is predominant in particular areas of Scotland and England vary as different regions of both Scotland and England have some unique subclades that is usually associated more certain peoples of the Isles. There is a ton of information that is easily available if you really wanted to know 😂

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Is that castle on the cliff edge in the opening seconds a real place? First time I’ve seen it. I’m guessing CGI or AI?

[@Patricu]

It's O'Brien's Tower at the Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@Patricu- So, not CGI or AI, but drone! Amazing place. Thanks for the info!

[@barryb90]

Cliffs of Moher. It's just a small tower

[@kmaguire9566]

It resembles Dunluce Castle on the North Coast

[@Annie-se4yi]

​@@kmaguire9566see Dunluce castle at 5:56

[@mukhumor]

'Viking' was a culture, not a race. Many Scandinavians were haplogroup R1b (50%), as were the rest of north west Europe. Red hair, blue eyes.... People were absorbed into 'Viking' culture. People who drive BMW's don't all come from Bavaria. Much of Icelands DNA is R1b, and carries a lot of 'Celtic' heritage. People who became 'viking', were half 'viking', married a 'viking' or were slaves to 'vikings'. (I know, it's not a video about vikings, just saying.)

[@andrealittle2836]

White is a race

[@dechannigan2980]

The Vikings were a Germanic people same as today's Nordic Scandinavians. .

[@mukhumor]

@@dechannigan2980 Cheers matey.

[@Celticcross688]

@@dechannigan2980The Vikings were Norse Gaels, not Germanic who some were Celtic. My Father was Rb1 red hair blue eyes my brother as well, male line. Origins DNA from Hebrides ✅ Iceland, Norway & Orcadian (Orkney). British 🇬🇧 Flag, is modern concept post 17 century, not a culture. Ancient Britons concern the history of past ancestry and origins. The irish genome is cut in half, the black irish Basques, dark colour hair wavy curly sallow skin, in the South from Spain.. North, Red hair, pale skin, freckles, from Norway ICELAND.

[@johnpatrick5307]

@@Celticcross688 The Irish don't have Spanish DNA, except for 2% Iberian. They might have 2% Viking. The Irish genome is not cut in half. He Irish come from the Steppes.

[@nadiasmith2650]

The vikings took the Irish as slaves you fool they didn't migrate by choice

[@BostonBoss]

🍀☘️🇺🇸

[@normanstewart7130]

16:35 The Viking age was 11 generations ago?😱 I don't think so!

[@jefftaylor1905]

🧩 . . . puzzle pieces, still on the move.

[@tobyplumlee7602]

I thought irish have very little Scandinavian dna?

[@dechannigan2980]

Probably some from the Norman invasion. . , 14 percent of Irish surnames are of Norman origin . .

[@emerosiochru]

There is absolutely nothing surprising in these findings. It accords perfectly with well understood Irish history. Duh!

[@PatrickMurphy-z1k]

This makes absolute sense to me based on my DNA results. Yes, my DNA has 12% Norwegian

[@PatrickMurphy-z1k]

Yes my ancestors are primarily from the coast of Mayo.

[@PatrickMurphy-z1k]

Although I'm an American lol 😆 but if I'm dropped into connaught, I blend right in until I open my mouth.

[@johnpatrick5307]

What else do you have?

[@PatrickMurphy-z1k]

@@johnpatrick5307 22% scots, 1% Welsh, and the rest is Irish. My grandparents are from Mayo

[@PatrickMurphy-z1k]

I'm an americsn but 2nd generation so I know exactly where my family cane from and have a lot of 2nd and 3rd removed cousins in Mayo.

[@antasosam8486]

So essentially said nothing.

[@redmoondesignbeth9119]

I rent from a Navajo/Lakota/15% Irish woman in Santa Fe, NM.

[@karlbyrne6021]

@redmoondesignbeth9119 I'd say she's beautiful. Tell her the story of the choctaw people who gave money to the Irish during our famine. If you don't know the story, look it up. Greetings from Dublin Ireland.

[@redmoondesignbeth9119]

@@karlbyrne6021 Thank You for that. I will tell her. :) I'm so attracted to your area. I hope I get there some day.

[@karlbyrne6021]

@redmoondesignbeth9119 unfortunately Ireland is not what you think it is, over the last few years our government has imported 10s of thousands of young Muslim men who are unvetted, over 100 thousand Ukraine people, all on benefits that are drawn from tax payers funds. This creates an atmosphere of hostiley, which the Irish people are not used to. Things are changing to quickly. If you're coming to Ireland, come soon. Before the Ireland we know & love is lost. Greetings from Dublin Ireland.

[@redmoondesignbeth9119]

@@karlbyrne6021 While I realize that wars have created refugees ....there is information out there that this is being done on purpose to destabilize countries. Here in the US reliable witnesses have seen plane loads of young men showing up. WTF??

[@michelejay5218]

​@@karlbyrne6021the Irish survived the English invasions and they'll get through this, too. I genuinely, feel sorry for any immigrants who THINK that they can get away with behaviours which are antisocial to the Irish community. Life (if they retain it) would become VERY difficult.

[@debrap947]

Ugh...I wish I could watch this but I just can't listen to that robotic narration a minute longer.😑

[@musiclvrlm]

Delicately avoiding the words “rape” and “slavery” in your descriptions - get real!!

[@abouttime1967]

95% proof?

[@steveotoole2965]

Bollox it is

[@casstay4499]

Sure is.. Ancestrys new update just dropped.. Remarkably, I now have 1% Sardinia. When you click on it it says 0%. I’m guessing anyone that has a high amt of Scots will get this with this update.. Should be interesting..

[@dechannigan2980]

The DNA is changing very rapidly presently with a massive influx from every area of the globe. .

[@gardenjoy5223]

Ireland is hardly a 'small' island... That's not a promising start of any video, that aims to 'inform'.

[@casstay4499]

It’s not the size of the island😂

[@StephenGallagher-mm5uq]

U need to read more history

[@StephenGallagher-mm5uq]

An

[@sussanfitzgerald514]

Repetitive and vaguely interesting. What a shame

[@coilinotoole6124]

This is complete rubbish. "Eleven generations ago showing the admixture of Viking genes..." Delete it and stop spreading ignorance.

[@COM70]

More AI crap.

[@colmanlong1032]

You need to revise and study irish history,some of the people you describe are not irish.