Surprising origin of Irish fair skin (far away from Ireland)

Irish fair skin, freckles and red hair may be a bit of an overstated cliché but there’s no doubt we are on the paler side of average when it comes to complexion.
Traditionally this has been put down to the lack of sunshine and the colder climate that comes with being part of northern Europe, on the edge of the Atlantic. The rain doesn’t help either.
Now scientists believe there may be a more dramatic explanation - that our pale appearance is inherited from just one man who lived 10,000 years ago.
What makes the theory more surprising is that this man came from a warmer climate, thousands of miles away from Ireland.
The theory has been put forward by scientists at Pennsylvania University who have been studying different skin pigmentations, and the genes that cause them.
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[@awkward-stranger]

My skin is so pale it is almost blue. I can't be in the direct sun for more than 10 minutes without burning. Thankful for sunscreen!

[@RedHeart1]

Yes you have too protect the beautiful white skin, but Caucasians can stand the cold better than non Caucasian’s though. We can survive in colder climates better, facts. You can research this and see what I’m talking about. Also, a lot of Caucasian’s have no problem adapting to the sun. For example I will burn at fist( without the proper sunscreen) then I get very tan! Most of my Caucasian friends are same way. I have one GF who is very light ivory skin, and she sounds like you, she never can gets tan. So all Caucasian’s are different with that, but all of us can stand the cold better. It may not be comfortable, but we could last longer in it, over a non Caucasian person.

[@LizRoe-ky4hr]

I once saw a documentary on David Bowie he was working with black musicians on an album in the USA one black guy said” he was the whitest white man I ever seen, his skin was so white is was almost see through, he was soooo shocked by Bowie’s appearance well that’s cos he had an Irish Mammy so your in good company 😆.

[@bethbartlett5692]

It is important that you take Vitamin D, + D3 and Magnesium, *Particularly now due to C-19!* But, always take these for your total health and clear Cognative strength. E and Fish Oil for skin, B12 for Energy. Beat Wellbeing ...!

[@alexxfade-mcnertney704]

I really am purple.. never knew where my pale skin came from as both of my parents & siblings have olive skin that tans very well. Both having Indian from their grandparents.. I just started climbing my family tree to find out that my 10th great grandfather was from Dublin Ireland back in the 1600s.. this is cool!

[@kawika3556]

@@RedHeart1 its a scientific fact narrow nasal or narrow noses are that way for closer climates, better breathing in colder weather, wider nasal passages or noses are for better breathing in hot dry climates we are evolved to the climates we live in

[@darrellm9915]

Someone had pale skin from 10,000 years ago, yet the mainstream media claims Irish and British people had dark skin like Cheddar man from around the same period? 🤔

[@curiositycloset2359]

Complete fiction to fit their narrative. If you read about it, they have no idea what their skin colour was, it states it in the article, but he had blue eyes, so odds are...

[@ThatisnotHair]

Because cheddar man was hunter gatherer. While today's European are disantants of Neolithic farmers of middle East who were light skin. Light skin is actually indicator of civilization.

[@curiositycloset2359]

@@ThatisnotHair yes, that very common dark skinned, blue eyed person. I see them everywhere I go

[@ConnorBurd]

Yeah, they're just racist 🙄

[@bigbird6039]

Yes and a Descendant of Cheddar man actually still lives in Cheddar. I’m not kidding, although I’m uncertain to his pigment.

[@danieljones332]

That's right... that's why there are so many pale skinned people in the Middle East. It stands to reason.

[@zoram671]

Irish fair skin is the most beautiful ❤🎉

[@TheM41a]

The lighter complexion of Irish and (northern euros in general) is a bit more complicated than this video suggests. It came from Eastern European agriculturalist groups who themselves were a mix of light skinned Mediterranean farmers and blonde blue eyed hunter gatherers (funnelbeaker and globular amphora) who went on to mix with darker Indo-Europeans (corded ware) The Neolithic farmers also did not come from North Africa lol, they merely colonised that area like they did much of Europe from the Near East.

[@michaeleager4635]

The migrations you are talking about are more recent than 10000 years so the gene may have already spread to the Yamnaya ( if this single person origin is correct)

[@terryjackson8186]

Indeed.

[@robgau2501]

Yeah. I smell bullshit on this video

[@nobuyukihori9039]

He also left out the fact that in eastern Russia there has been evidence shown that red haired people have also been in Northern Russia for thousands of years. We Japanese have known this for over a hundred years now. I wonder when the Americans and English with find out this as fact. Strange how the British all assume that everyone came from the middle east or Africa without any thoughts at all about eastern Russia or Asia. Bizarre..why is the west so far back in research..

[@muhammadabulfazal2935]

funnelbeaker and Globular amphora were bronze age farmer cultures not Hunter Gatherer, they were the mix of Anatolian Neolithic Farmer and Western Hunter Gatherers (WHG) of Europe. Though blue eye mutation is indeed associated with WHG, the blonde hair mutation is from Ancestral North Eurasians (ANE) who formed a major admixture component in the Eastern Hunter Gatherers (who themselves were the mix of ANE and WHG). EHG formed a major ancestral compositions of Yamnaya (PIE) hence Blonde hair mutation was most probably brought in by IE migrations into rest of Europe. Lastly, the Corded Ware Culture was a result of mixture Yamnaya and Globuar Amphora. Corded Wares were the ancestor of most of the European groups today and Indo-Iranians in the East.

[@CasperLD]

So I have Red Hair- Mutation. Blue eyes- Mutation!.... Pale Skin- MUTATION! I really should be in the X-Men

[@LizRoe-ky4hr]

Ain’t it great to be Irish, I’m sure Natural Selection had a big influence too.

[@priyadarshanrishikumarmehr3585]

Whatever the color black, brown, pale blue eyes, green eyes never forget we r humans so never differentiate on such bases.

[@ironguardian1970]

Red hair and blue eyes are the rarest generic combination on earth. My nephew has this combination. I have red hair and hazel eyes myself

[@vetr17384]

@@ironguardian1970 Hazel and green are more rare than blue. Only 2% of the population has green eyes. Gray are also very rare. So the rarest combo would be red hair-green or gray eyes 😊

[@ciaranallen702]

@@vetr17384 hello from a rare one V , no need to reply iam just wishing you and yours well this Thors day .x

[@LizRoe-ky4hr]

Fifty shades of fair; I have Ivory white skin & flaxen blonde hair & sky blue eyes, I have never been sunburnt & really tan easily, my blonde hair come from my granny from Wexford Vikings & all that, she had porcelain skin & platinum blonde hair burnt like bacon in the sun.Her daughter my mother had jet black hair dark brown skin & blue eyes my father had jet black hair olive skin & ice blue eyes, but they had me & a red haired sibling oh & my child has red hair despite her dad having jet black hair olive skin & dark brown eyes, yes we are all Irish.Red hair occurs when both parents carry the red haired gene 🧬.We the Irish have the most diverse hair & eye colour anywhere in the world that’s why we are soooo gorgeous my fellow Celtic Charmers😉.

[@LizRoe-ky4hr]

No it’s merely that Ireland has the most unique & diverse eye & hair colours in the world.We created them over centuries of natural selection we are just amazing like that!!Mo cairde growing up had navy eyes & jet black hair, other had red hair & green eyes, nother flaxen blonde hair & brown eyes my Galway Granny had violet coloured eyes & jet black hair.We Irish have carved out our unique colouring, culture craic agus coel in an island setting cut off from the rest of the world.Some of the planets most celebrated people, icons renowned for their unique beauty & talent owe it to the unique people of Ireland.David Bowie Irish Mammy ditto Kate Bush, Billy Idol Irish Mammy, Paul McCarthy 100% Irish, Marilyn Monroe Granny was a Dublin Girl.Brad Pitt 100% Irish.Dusty Springfield 100%, Kim Bassinger 50% Elvis 100% I could go on,go on, go on 😆.We should celebrate the fact that we are so talented & beautiful & the fact that the Irish have influenced & changed the word through our unique artistic culture not through war, dominating other nations or the C Word colonialism.Lamha held high If you love being Irish 🥰🇮🇪 🥰.

[@LizRoe-ky4hr]

Blow Me you are a fool & a misery

[@amytrumbull156]

I’m Scots Irish English and moms side has red hair and blue eyes, dad has light brown hair and blue eyes. Sister and I have blonde hair as kids, now light brown with blue eyes. We’re quite fair and some freckles. Sometimes I really wish I had gotten the red hair, it’s so beautiful. Never hide your beautiful red hair! Wear gobs of sunscreen daily too!

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Very Nice Italy France

[@irishlad3029]

Scots Irish English haha what

[@harrietharlow9929]

My mother had red hair and green eyes, whilst my father had brown hair and blue eyes. Unfortunately, I didn't get my mum's hair and eyes but I have a very light complexion. I mean we are talking really light. My back grounds is English, Scots Irish and French and farther back, Iberian It says German and DNA from South Jutland but I assume that could be from the various invasions. Iberian.

[@occidentadvocate.9759]

Im a Gael and my clan all very Pale skinned and have pale blue eyes. Lots Redheads and fair haired in my clan. Iv passed it on as i have 11 children and 19 grandchildren and counting. Im majority Irish / Scots with some English, Welsh and German origin. 😎

[@corryjookit7818]

I have a very fair skin tone, and I have Red Hair. I have also taken part in the University of Edinburgh search for the Red Hair Gene. Yes it exists and yes I carry the Red Hair Gene, and so do my two sisters, my three nieces, and two great nephews. Each colour is slightly different from the others. I'll leave some pieces of advice re Red Hair. Take care of it. Red Hair people have less hair attached to the scalp than most. Never try to dye it, it's a beautiful colour, and if you do take care, you will keep the colour longer than your peers who aren't Red Haired. .many years more,

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

You have a pale white skin tone.....Fair skinned actually means yellowish skin with yellow (blonde) hair like in Scandanavia and other Germanic countries.

[@lauriemclaughlin6589]

I'm 62 & still proudly have red hair(auburn), peach complexion, but tan easily, & look to be about 45, so people tell me!! Have never colored or staightened my hair! I'm in U.S. but have Irish heritage!

[@LizRoe-ky4hr]

Yes I have flaxen blonde hair & ivory not porcelain skin it does have a butter colour tone to it & I have never been sunburnt I tan really easily, daughter is a redhead & has beautiful flawless porcelain skin & big blue eyes, but she fries like bacon in the sun 😢.She hates the summer & the sun!!

[@iloveyouiyes5439]

This is 2020 not 1620 USA genetic scientist in 2005 discovered an diseased mutated gene responsible the production of white skin. They indicated that not only is white skin a mutation an not a race, it qualifies as an auto immune disease , in that it prevent the body from producing a normal amount of melanin. The Holy Bible indicates white skin is biblical leprosy.2Kings5:27. white skin is fair skin, only a fool believes that . DNA does not lie it stands in a court of law. Again this 2020 not 1620 . Logic and common sense , having a disease is not a good thing, but calling a physiological disease of nature a race in 2020 is 1620 uneducated mental ignorance.

[@roberthayes9842]

My grandfather had red hair and at the age of 70 his hair was just as thick as it always had been it merely turned auburn in his twenties, only his sideburns turned gray in his sixties, it was his pride and joy

[@Musica-xo3uv]

Irish people have very white skin and they can never tan, they always sunburn. That's because most have the "red hair" gene, but it is hidden and not always manifested. For example many men have brown hair, but red beards

[@DJ100254002]

I get dark brown in summer time red beard and blond streeks in my hair..in winter I'm white my upper legs stay white hmm idk

[@mazadancoseben4818]

Funny how they were once considered not white

[@Musica-xo3uv]

@@mazadancoseben4818 For the ignorant Americans hahaha lol for them only those of Anglo-Saxon origin and Protestant religion were white lol Being Catholic was synonymous with "not white". Nor did they consider Europeans of Slavic origin or Mediterranean Europeans to be white. Americans have always had an obsession for racial classifications, which is why they are hated by everyone.

[@mazadancoseben4818]

@@Musica-xo3uv , well, they are a bit better now So I think we could relax our hatred (Though racist responses from various races, makes things complicated)

[@evaschroeder4020]

@@DJ100254002 read my above nationality and my tanning ability ha ha.

[@MYLIFE22311]

My DNA came back 63% Irish / British and the rest Polish/Finland and Im white with a red beard and love it😂

[@juliannamarie6298]

I am Irish/Scottish & Mexican. I have red/auburn hair, blue eyes and I I tan easily. One of my siblings has my coloring and the other two are brown eyed and black haired. Genetics are a beautiful thing!

[@nickdee5764]

Canelo!?

[@kelcritcarroll]

My aunt had welsh and french origins and she had an auburn colored hair and her eyes were auburn as well…she seemed to tan pretty easy and she was always tan as she gardened alot…she was so striking in her looks….very pretty.

[@grounded7362]

There is nothing more beautiful than the fair skin of an Irish woman with red hair!

[@joerogers7129]

That's your opinion

[@grounded7362]

@@joerogers7129 It sure is. Don't be to hard on yourself that you can't find it in you to feel the same way. 😁

[@joerogers7129]

@@grounded7362 Me not feeling the same way is proof that it's nothing other than your opinion Which many other people may share with you but it's still just an opinion

[@grounded7362]

@@joerogers7129 You are correct. It is my opinion. Not sure why you are stirred up by my opinion though. All I was doing was sharing my opinion of fair skinned, redheaded, Irish women. My opinion doesn't have to align with your opinion and your opinion doesn't have to align with mine. That does not make either of our options wrong or something to get stirred up over. So if you are troubled by the idea that fair skinned, redheaded, Irish women are the most beautiful, why would you care to even watch a video about fair skinned Irish in the first place? If you like dark skinned girls with dark hair, more power to you. If we all liked the same thing someone would have to go without. You not agreeing with my opinion just means I don't have to share my beautiful heritage with you. I get to do what I can to keep my heritage alive and pure. 🤣🎉🤣🎉🤣🎉🤣🎉🤣🎉🤣🎉

[@joerogers7129]

@@grounded7362 I really don't care you should be proud of your heritage as should we all

[@user-pt1le6cc8c]

Me and my family definitely have the gene,red hair green eyes or blue! I hated it growing up but love it now

[@kaymuldoon3575]

The same has been said of people with blue eyes. It all started from one ancestor had a mutation. Before that, all humans had brown eyes.

[@raukawa4732]

I'm so pale I turn pink in the sun, the only tanned parts are the freckles

[@pambalestra2911]

sad and funny at the same time. I'm Irish with very fair skiing but did not really get freckles until my forties lol

[@pambalestra2911]

skiing?? really auto correct???

[@lindagonzalez5059]

That's called PRAWN in Spain Gambas

[@wrathofel2796]

My family members are very light skinned on both sides, but especially so on my father's side and most are redheads, with green or blue eyes. Fiery red too. My daughter's skin is so white she looks like a porcelain doll. For some reason the males get either a more blondish or auburn color to their hair as they get older and only the beard stays pretty red. The females keep the bright red their whole lives. Not sure why that is. 🤷‍♂️ They also have a really high rate of having twins. My father is a twin, my sister has twins, 3 of my cousins have twins. Has anyone else with a family of pale redheads seen a surprising amount of twins consistently born? I have wondered if there might be a connection or not.

[@berniemacdonald]

Testosterone darkens male hair.

[@Exotic3000]

I love video clips like this. It makes sense and could be possible!

[@galoglaich3281]

The middle east would have been much colder at the time as the rest of the northern hemisphere would still have been just emerging from glaciation.

[@MariaNI-yf1bz]

the Middle East is still not as hot as steamy as some people might want or think it is. Im sure the US is much hotter.

[@evaschroeder4020]

I'm only one quarter celtic and have spanish/greek/Italian. Macedonian Albanian a tiny bit of native american black, east indian, middle eastern jewish Scandinavian German french Dutch slavic russian/polish. I am very fair! But when they say celts are fair they arent kidding I have red hair. But I do tan some and have brown eyes and look a little more exotic then a pure celt. But celts are so fair their they must be able lighten people up pretty fast within in even a couple generations. My dad is even fairer then I am although we're still no where near as fair as these pure celts! And he's the one I get the mediterenan middle eastern black indian stuff from. He's half celtic. He has very fair almost white skin ink black hair and blues eyes. But looks mixed. We both burn easily but tan a little. My mom who has very little celtic ancestry who's jewish german and Scandinavian tans better than either of us and doesn't burn easisly like we do. Most people because my skin is so fair and I have red hair often assume I'm way more Celtic then I actually am. My ancestry test surprised me I actually expected to be super Celtic but it was only a quarter.

[@jcup7411]

The Caucasians were from the tribes of Benjamin and Judah living in the Cacasus mtns, moved to Ireland to meet the Isrealite tribe of Dan (Dan-ube river) who called them their Caucasus cousins. So the British Isles are the tribes of Israel, along with France (Ruben), Norway (Naphtali), and other western european nations connected to the mass migration of the Israelites several times away from the babylonian tribes, (romans, russia, )

[@user-rb5eh7yo2m]

That is correct i am Norwegian and we are cousin of the Irish we have or atleast used to have alot more redheads, Also Irish were the first to bring us christianity in the 700s. Not only that when the first christian came to ireland and met the druids they the druids admitted they were Judeans who had fled from Egypt. This also can explain why Irish are really envied and hated by sinister people in history. And yes Irish are the whitest people on earth and i personally love redheads anyway unlike some people. Facts Norwegians are also CELTS but we have been fooled into thinking we are not because of the latin term "Germanic" We all came from Noah Norwegians are Northern isrealites we are the blonde haired nazarites/nazerenes!

[@user-rb5eh7yo2m]

@@YepMhmm Old norse runic is the phonecian alphabet so yes you are right

[@user-rb5eh7yo2m]

@@YepMhmm Great comment man i agree i consider British, French etc very close cousins! Also i would say France, Spain and parts of Germany also are heaven like places to live in the sense its green and you have all seasons. vikings went a little bit to far north almost but isrealties had to hide, Thats why its rumored mary magdalene bloodline HID in Monaco mountains or possibly later northern spain, But we dont know. I belive however that ALL europeans that are celtic belong to the isrealites with the exception of some south and east europeans who descend from the Romans who were not jews but did kill christ and we fled these people, However Jesus never hated the romans.

[@user-rb5eh7yo2m]

@@YepMhmm Yes good points. Also yes Spain has alot of isrealites they just have mixed populations so not all of them are because of moor invasions. Scandinavia is actually the purest isrealite territory (before mass immigration) because we all descend from northern isrealites, Germany got tribes from all over including serbs and bulgars , slavs etc.. But yes there are even blonde people in the canary islands that are NATIVE to that area.

[@user-rb5eh7yo2m]

@@YepMhmm And yes the vikings even though racially on the second place of isrealite racial purity (Irish and scottish being on first just facts) the vikings always opposed their own damn self yes.. they are STILL fulfulling the babylonian prophecies actually, But ive heard some people claim all celts were schytians and that redhair existed all over europe but by accident only ended up surviving in britihs isles (cus witch hunts and different preference in rest of europe) but i dont know. Ive heard some nords claim irish redheads are mostly in the areas with viking settlements this could be true also, Maybe irish are originally Basque but they got redhair from vikings... All i know is that there are extremly FEW scandinavians left with redhair nowdays, Britain seems to be stronghold of that type but its still found all over schytian territories so yes i really have no clue wish i could get a proper answer because i believe the nordics and west europe is alot more releated than we are to meds, I have even heard nordics are more releated to japanese people than to south europeans.

[@k.c5276]

im albanian and all my ancestors looked irish and i look like dark irish

[@user-jd5gh3kg5t]

Because celts and illyrians lived and breeded in the same land a long time ago

[@James12361]

Dark Irish is a myth

[@SILENCEINTHESOULS]

Came here from Abhijit video of fair skin came from india where someone talked of your video so i was trying to find it for a long time and now I did

[@june5527]

Give me a break, so now there's a Cheddar Man of Ireland?

[@heldermonteiro2718]

LOL😂😂😂😂😂 It seems

[@jeanmackenzie4781]

Cheddar man political agenda rubbish.

[@4teen88]

Him being from the middle east doesn't mean he would be non-white. Iran literally means Aryan. It still doesn't mean that is the region it "originated"

[@ccahill2322]

June, no that was Havarti man.

[@Krawn_]

@@4teen88 That nation was never called Iran in the past.

[@TheDamnD_]

I'm German, Irish, Scottish, English and French. I'm extremely white with freckles. I can tan in Summer and get lightly sunburned.

[@TisEyerish1]

That is pretty amazing!

[@IrelandCallingDaily]

Thank you. Glad you liked the video.

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

@@IrelandCallingDaily Fair skinned is incorrect....We have pale white skin.....Fair skinned people have a yellowish tint to their skin that usually goes with fair (yellow) hair like people in the Germanic countries.

[@LizRoe-ky4hr]

JimBobJim Yes I have Flaxen Blonde hair, Ivory (it’s got a yellow tinge) not pale skin & Sky Blue eyes, granny was from Wexford a Viking strong hold & I suntan so easily never get sunburnt, this is a common occurrence with Southern Swedes.So most probably I have Viking DNA.In fact I get approached by Swedish people who think I am Swedish including Bjorn Borg & I was struck when I met him how he had the exact same colouring as me.Strange but true.

[@stuartdryer1352]

Of course the reason it was selected for in Ireland IS due to climate even if the mutation didnt originate there.

[@LizRoe-ky4hr]

Stuart Dryer Yes of course living in such low levels of sunshine we the Irish people evolved to be the porcelain pale & lighted eyed lovelies that we are 😉.We are a very unique breed of humans & we should be Proud to be Pale.

[@stuartdryer1352]

@@LizRoe-ky4hr Better to be proud of something you are actually responsible for, i.e. something you've done. Our skin colors are accidents of birth. You were born in Ireland but you didn't choose it. In an equally likely universe you might have been born in Sri Lanka. Same for all of us. None of us choose our parents.

[@ImRezaF]

@@stuartdryer1352 Not necessarily only due to climate. Diet played a huge role too in skin complexion. The Eskimos lives in area where the UV radiation are minimal yet they still retain their dark complexion. Many anthropologists suggest the reason of that was due to their diet of seafood which means their food are rich in Vitamin D in the first place. Ever since humans changed from hunter-gatherers to farming society, we experienced severe malnutrition. I just read that cereal plants are very minimal in Vitamin D or nutrition in general.

[@stuartdryer1352]

@@ImRezaF Yes, these are all factors too.

[@mairtinmalanaphy2750]

@@ImRezaF Eskimos have only existed for 4 or 5 thousand years. The predecessors of Gaelic people have lived in Northwest Europe for at least 10 thousand. The Eskimos simply didn't have time to adapt yet.

[@c.r.p.968]

It's actually The University of Pennsylvania. There is no school called Pennsylvania University. Just FYI

[@IrelandCallingDaily]

Thank you for the correction. Best wishes, Maggie

[@jonmars9559]

That does not sound quite correct. Modern Irish descend from Bell Beaker populations descending from Yamnaya Steppe cultures of northwestern Eurasia. They arrived in Ireland around 4500 years ago, displacing earlier Anatolian Neolithic farming populations. If the gene variant described in this video resulted in fair skin across northern Europe, it came by way of a much different route than describe here.

[@Jam0023]

Yes, but before the Neolithic farmers were already settled, which is what the video refers to. about 6000 or 7000 years ago B.C. The Yamnaya brought the gene for blond hair, not fair skin, and red hair may be Neanderthal heritage.

[@jonmars9559]

@@Jam0023 The Yamnaya Steppe migration started only around 4500 years ago and reached western Europe sometime after that. The source for light skin and light hair was brought to Europe by the Yamnaya migration first by way of the Corded Ware culture and later the Bell Beaker culture. Much later than what is described in this video. On a side note, the gene for blue eyes originate even before the Anatolian Neolithic farmers in western Europe. The gene responsible for blue eyes was present in early, post iceage hunter gatherers around 10,000 years ago. These people were dark skinned, dark haired and blue eyed. Only sometime after the Steppe migrations into Europe did light skin, blonde hair and blue eyes all merge together in northern European populations.

[@Cobalt1520]

@@Jam0023 it's already been proven red hair has nothing to do with neanderthals.

[@miralong8501]

Who gave this the thumps down................A sure yer ony mad jealous, so yar!

[@nurtured-channel2953]

I met a middle eastern lady whose children have fair skin and red hair.

[@MariaNI-yf1bz]

Why not? There are three different variants of the MC1R gene, which causes red hair; those with 151-Cysteine-red have a 70,000 year old variant that probably arose in West Asia; those with 160-Tryptophan-red are descendants of someone who probably also lived in West Asia 70,000 years ago; and 294-Histidine-reds belong to a much younger group who come from a European who lived about 30,000 years ago. Having red hair doesnt mean or equals European ancestry. And the europeans variant is 30.000 years old unlike the West Asian/ Middle Eastern variant of 70.000 years.

[@Agapi-dg7th]

Indogipsies again are also irish, ? But this time the indogipsies came from every direction, left right south central, the thing that cracks me up is ,,, if you are gipsy you definatly have light skin , wtf? Do the travelers of ireland are blond blue eyed and fair skined? Anyone knows?

[@alisonbrowning9620]

i would have loved the red haired and freckled colouring but got that dark Celt thing with the dark eyes, olive skin and dark eyes

[@bethbartlett5692]

Sub'd, Best Wellbeing ! Irish American of County Kerry lineage Tennessee, USA (Chicago original)

[@franksullivan1873]

We came from outer space as an alien prisoner colony and were stuck on the island,lol.We were an angry bunch.

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

Fair skin is incorrect, we have pale white skin. Fair skinned people are the Germanic types who a yellowish tint to their skin with usually fair (Yellow) hair.

[@iloveyouiyes5439]

This is 2020 not 1620 USA genetic scientist in 2005 discovered an diseased mutated gene responsible the production of white skin. They indicated that not only is white skin a mutation an not a race, it qualifies as an auto immune disease , in that it prevent the body from producing a normal amount of melanin. The Holy Bible indicates white skin is biblical leprosy.2Kings5:27. white skin is fair skin, only a fool believes that . DNA does not lie it stands in a court of law. Again this 2020 not 1620 . Logic and common sense , having a disease is not a good thing, but calling a physiological disease of nature a race in 2020 is 1620 uneducated mental ignorance.

[@irishcountrygirl78]

@@iloveyouiyes5439 you're an immune disease to this comnent section.

[@johnnydtw3509]

All Europeans come from the same gene African man mixed with Neanderthal to make Europeans

[@bobsmith5441]

@@iloveyouiyes5439 Wow, well now that is an interesting angle on the usual racism. Well done!

[@celtiberian07]

My family that came from Ireland had olive skin green brown or hazel eyes

[@maassrddd]

Your family is part of meditranian family group

[@MariaNI-yf1bz]

@@maassrddd not necessarily. Cheddar man likely had olive skin too.

[@MiloManning05]

@@MariaNI-yf1bz that’s England

[@baecere2]

I can say with 100% certainty that if I or other Irish men or women got more sun they would be much much darker. My mother and dad are both Irish Americans (I am too) I am some what pale, but ever since I been getting more and more sun I have gotten much much darker. Also never knew that Irish dna was so rich tbh I also was so confused seeing my dad and mom being darker than me wondering how I am Irish.

[@brittanyhayes1043]

I love it!

[@xotan]

Vampire-like, I abhor the direct sunlight on my skin. I had light red hair too. But very early on I learned that the sun qwas no friend to me, so no prolonged exposure, even in cloudy Ireland,

[@MrZReacts88]

You get a thumbs down. How can you tell me we're connected to the same particular person. But not tell me who this person is? Rely dude?

[@mdoobie17]

It's probably Jesus and they just don't want to admit it 😂😂

[@spmoran4703]

I am Green eyed , fair skinned and red haired . My name Moran as also been discovered in Spain. This then is my heritage .

[@kaymuldoon3575]

I have pale skin and reddish hair. Unfortunately I don’t have blue eyes (mine are hazel), so I don’t qualify as a pure mutation. Lol

[@rl2204]

>studies suggest >experts are saying >scientists believe that >according to research >87% of people believe that sure thing pal

[@theCosmicQueen]

it's not really surprising, since Noah's sons all came from the Mideast ( northern area, caucasus, Mt Ararat) . also we tend to NOT realize that there have always been light skinned blondes, redheads, and blue eyes in the mideast all along. Iran, Israel, etc. The Old Testament does mention Esau and David, both having redhead complexion and/ or hair.

[@pambalestra2911]

I'm Irish with pale skin and freckles. Interesting video and even made me giggle once or twice. Thanks 😂

[@simplehuman204]

??

[@lorrainemulluns9645]

My father had black hair and pale skin he came from Tipperary all but one of he's brothers and sisters had black hair he had blond hair my hair had lots of ginger in it my son has a ginger beard

[@zoram671]

You said your dad have black hair and you again he had blond hair...watch your sentence to put up on youtube

[@lorrainemulluns9645]

@@zoram671 look at it again that is not what I said 🤔

[@zoram671]

@@lorrainemulluns9645 huh....here we go again... In the first sentence you said...MY FATHER HAD BLACK HAIR AND PALE SKIN ...again look at the third line ending and the starting of the fourth line what did you mentioned ...you again mentioned .. You said that ONE OF HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS HAD BLACK HAIR AND HE( YOUR FATHER) BLOND HAIR) ☝️☝️☝️☝️🤦🤦🤦🙄🤣😳

[@noeldoyle4501]

Certainly, "Mediterranean Celts" are considered to be among the very first Irish people to settle in Ireland, more than 3,000 years ago. They are darker than the ordinary Irish people who came at about the same time.

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

Great video.

[@grounded7362]

Song of Solomon 5:10 KJV 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. This sounds like the complexion of an Irish person. 😁

[@spike2227]

The lost tribes did go west into Europe among the other Adamic people.

[@thesoulsofourancestors]

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@lindagrabowski8911]

How many people here are fair skin/ RH negative? There is a mediterranean connection.

[@kelcritcarroll]

My painfully fair skin is a mutation?

[@shivamanand7754]

Mutation for White skin was unlocked in Indian people who were vegetarian & who were doing agriculture & keeping cows. North west reason is very good agriculture belt in India. It must have taken place there & study showed it happened near India.

[@chelisue]

I’m the only one in my family with any melanin apparent in their appearance. I get pretty dark too. And in the age of 23&me we know I’m absolutely both my parents kid. Figure I must be a throwback.

[@RedHeart1]

My Irish sisters are so beautiful!❤️

[@wendylynne5010]

Proud of it!!! 💖💋

[@IrelandCallingDaily]

Quite rightly so!

[@lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559]

Why? It's not like you played any part in creating your skin colour. Being proud or ashamed of something you can't control is non-sensical - instead, be proud of the things about yourself that you DO control, like how you dress/wear your hair/look after your body/treat other people, etc.

[@LizRoe-ky4hr]

Hey it’s an unique part of our culture, it marks us out as an proud ethnic group so why not be proud of your family your ancestors, the blood running through your veins.God knows the Irish have fought long & hard to be themselves & reclaim their unique culture from the brutality of colonialism.Im pale & Im proud & Im saying it out loud !!

[@iloveyouiyes5439]

This is 2020 not 1620 USA genetic scientist in 2005 discovered an diseased mutated gene responsible the production of white skin. They indicated that not only is white skin a mutation an not a race, it qualifies as an auto immune disease , in that it prevent the body from producing a normal amount of melanin. The Holy Bible indicates white skin is biblical leprosy.2Kings5:27. white skin is fair skin, only a fool believes that . DNA does not lie it stands in a court of law. Again this 2020 not 1620 . Logic and common sense , having a disease is not a good thing, but calling a physiological disease of nature a race in 2020 is 1620 uneducated mental ignorance.

[@myrakissick3053]

My brother and I look completely different, my brother has dark brown hair and dark brown eyes and has a olive skin colour where he can tan very easily and doesn't burn very much and I have dark blonde/light brown hair and dark blue eyes and I have a very pale skin colour where I burn very easily

[@candlelight3332]

The title is just weird to me. Why do you say “Irish fair skin” when practically all of northern, western and eastern Europe also has a fair skinned native majority. Nothing about it is unique to Irish people. Even southern Europe too ,has plenty of pale people, but naturally, they also have a higher proportion of tan/olive skinned people as well. I mean,Saoirse Ronan the actress in your thumbnail always reminded me of Russian women I’ve seen before, bc i used to live in a Baltic country with a large Russian minority. The sandy blonde hair and ice blue eyes. She even played a Russian girl in the movie The Seagull a few years ago. Maybe you need to travel more lol

[@pinktiedave]

Funnily enough I am Irish having had an ancestry dna test done it came back as 100% Irish and amoung 3% of the world population that can claim 100% heritage. Although I am not fair skinned I have a dark complexion with brown hair and blue eyes.

[@pinktiedave]

@@deborahcrumley8044 hey how's it's going I had it done with Ancestry DNA a kit costs 99 euro

[@pinktiedave]

@@deborahcrumley8044 As I stated above I'm 100% Irish from the Western region specifically Roscommon Galway Sligo area . And I am amoung roughly 3% of the world's population that can claim 100% genetically from the country of my birth. There are very few people who have absolute zero other race in their bloodline I'm one of those. It was very interesting in one way but fitting in others as I'm an incredibly proud Irish man.

[@LizRoe-ky4hr]

Dave Kenny and so you should be I’m an incredibly proud Irish Woman Flaxen Blonde, Blue Eyed, Ivory Skinned. However, Dave I currently live in the UK where being proud to be pale is a mortal sin, if some people had their way it would be a criminal offence.”Whites”as we are called even though you have your skin tone & my mother had dark olive, blue eyes & black hair, we are all lumped together regardless of our country of origin, culture or race.We are whites & simply because of this we are told by black people that all whites are racist & “critical race theory” is thought in school in the UK.When I get abused by black people I simply say I am not White I am IRISH, get educated & then get back to me.Stupefied by this, can’t get their biased, belligerent brain around this reality or the statement I make don’t lay your bull at my door I’m IRISH I have no Colonial Conscience to Cleanse!! I thank God I’m Irish every day Dave.

[@irishcountrygirl78]

@@pinktiedave 3% of the world? LOL My American born relatives in Philly had the exact same results. 100% Irish. Pretty sure there is more than 3% living outside of Ireland alone...

[@HillbillyYEEHAA]

It changes all the time. I have a a few matches with 100% Irish. I had one that was 90% Welsh. I've not seen anyone 100% Welsh.

[@Captain-ln3vh]

I’m blond, blue eyes and tan great. Somebody mixed up the X’s and Y’s.

[@irishcountrygirl78]

Yep same 🤣

[@celtiberian07]

I am not all irish but my irish relatives had hair and olive skin like me they here not white or pink

[@CatCambak]

I’m Scottish, Norwegian and Icelandic. I’m clear white lol red hair and green eyes

[@davidturner4610]

I’m of blonde haired Irish descent!

[@ProfileP246]

Blonde hair blue eyes would be Nordic, black wavy hair is Irish it’s from the basque they inhabited Ireland and mixed with Nordic

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

@@ProfileP246 Most Irish do not black wavy hair.. Brown hair is the common colour not black.

[@ccahill2322]

@@jimbobjimjim6500 , of course they do . I remember the postman used boot polish. Black that is.

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

@@ccahill2322 Wut?

[@johnpatrick5307]

@@ProfileP246 Pale skin, dark hair/blonde hair and blue eyes is the usual Irish look - Irish are curious in having that mixture in all their families! It must have come from the Gauls of Central Europe - looks that are still there today.

[@EagleArrow]

Noah and his arc landed in Armenia after the flood. This was well known. When the Turks and other mid eastern groups were killing Armenians or forcing them out of their land, Armenians went to Russia's southern border and to Ireland and Scotland.

[@user-rb5eh7yo2m]

Yep. This is also why some few armenians recessivly still carry both the red and blonde hair and blue eyes gene too because not all left some just got mixed/conquered

[@ywarjanpalod9400]

Noah bullshit 😂

[@TheMrspopRocks]

Very Dark hair Very very pale skin.

[@DrCorvid]

Our caucasian history holds the Cossacks were among the lightest.

[@ariella2155]

I don’t really buy that explanation as I have yet to see one person from the Middle East with bright red hair fair skin and freckles- it’s illogical. Could there be an ancestral gene we share related to skin tone yes sure.

[@Joe-rr3ip]

The flaw in your argument is that the Irish people are a mixture of Nordic peoples. Cork/Dublin and probably other places are Viking settlements. We don't know who was there before the Celts, or the fairness of their skins. We don't know if the Celts had fair skin among their number, or the Normans, who are essentially Vikings. Over the last one thousand years, the population of Ireland, since the invasion of the Vikings, the Normans and the accidental immigration of the Spaniards, today is widely dispersed. My own family comes primarily from Cork. In my family you were either a blond or a redhead, or, you were left by the mailman, primarily Viking Nordic. :-)

[@StuartFuckingLittle]

My whole family is from cork too, and from what I know from a DNA test, pretty much fully Irish. We all look very spanish with tanned skin and jet black hair. Would this probably be because of some Spanish influence?

[@iloveyouiyes5439]

This is 2020 not 1620 USA genetic scientist in 2005 discovered an diseased mutated gene responsible the production of white skin. They indicated that not only is white skin a mutation an not a race, it qualifies as an auto immune disease , in that it prevent the body from producing a normal amount of melanin. The Holy Bible indicates white skin is biblical leprosy.2Kings5:27. white skin is fair skin, only a fool believes that . DNA does not lie it stands in a court of law. Again this 2020 not 1620 . Logic and common sense , having a disease is not a good thing, but calling a physiological disease of nature a race in 2020 is 1620 uneducated mental ignorance.

[@proverbalizer]

what is a accidental immigration? Did they hop on Columbus' ship and get lost?

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

Boudicca was pale white with red hair according to the Romans, and she was a Celt of the Iceni tribe in Britain.

[@Joe-rr3ip]

@@proverbalizer No , it is theorized that they came to Ireland as did the other people from the continent. It is a straight shot across the Atlantic ocean :-) Also, a lot of Spanish arrived with the armada of the sixteenth century. The storm that kept the invasion of England at bay also redirected many of the ships to our emerald isle. :-)

[@fightfannerd2078]

Evolved in cold areas

[@FFF-xz6wn]

Do you have some Irish legends about Chud'? It's rare white skinned population, like albino but white eyed, didn't except Christianity and killed themselves

[@user-hf2vt1nh2i]

Myself and my sisters are fair haired and red haired and 3 have blue eyes and one has brown eyes. My lrish Mam had dark brown hair tanned easily and big brown eyes. My lrish father had curly fair hair and blue eyes. We burnt easily

[@Cobalt1520]

1:54: colonization of Europe was not via North Africa but via middle east.

[@klsconnor7315]

Hmm, Pennsylvania University?

[@iloveyouiyes5439]

This is 2020 not 1620 USA genetic scientist in 2005 discovered an diseased mutated gene responsible the production of white skin. They indicated that not only is white skin a mutation an not a race, it qualifies as an auto immune disease , in that it prevent the body from producing a normal amount of melanin. The Holy Bible indicates white skin is biblical leprosy.2Kings5:27. white skin is fair skin, only a fool believes that . DNA does not lie it stands in a court of law. Again this 2020 not 1620 . Logic and common sense , having a disease is not a good thing, but calling a physiological disease of nature a race in 2020 is 1620 uneducated mental ignorance.

[@asamanyworlds3772]

I'm a red hair blue eyes ginger

[@Aashy_Z]

I want to ask irish people do you all have skin like wwe star sheamus

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Concern yourself with more important pursuits ..."Love others as you love yourself" etc ❤

[@franzl6153]

I think the Irish are the palest people in the world. Other northern and eastern europeans tan easily, they have a yellowish skin color, even olive skin, on the other hand, the Irish are very pale (not all, but most). Always sunburn. That is due to the mc1r gene

[@dimonddust4318]

Well.. I'm Russian and I turn lobster red within 2 min of sun exposure. I don't know where you got the easy tanning myth from, because clearly, it isn't true xD My childhood consisted of shedding skin like a snake after a particularly nasty sunburn..almost every summer.

[@johnpatrick5307]

Yes - whereas the British often have sallow skin (from all the different peoples that were there).

[@johng5261]

this applies to all of northern and central europe. Irish obsession is just because its an ethnicity you are familiar with.

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

😊😊😊😊

[@sksman71]

Yes the Irish are pretty fair skinned especially the ones with red hair.

[@hughneek12]

I am irish and I have always believed the Irish have fair skin because of their mix of Gaelic and Scandinavian blood. The Irish have a lot of Scandinavian blood.

[@sksman71]

@@hughneek12 Yeah that probably true .probably at least 30 to 40 percent mixture with Scandinavian

[@hughneek12]

My name is O'Rourke, which you may be thinking is as Irish as could be, but is in fact, of Scandinavian origins. The original form of the name is hRothekr. All the European monarchies originated from that root. My ancestors were ancient kings of Scandinavia, particularly of Denmark. My forebears came to Ireland 4,000 years ago in a early Norse invasion.

[@iloveyouiyes5439]

This is 2020 not 1620 USA genetic scientist in 2005 discovered an diseased mutated gene responsible the production of white skin. They indicated that not only is white skin a mutation an not a race, it qualifies as an auto immune disease , in that it prevent the body from producing a normal amount of melanin. The Holy Bible indicates white skin is biblical leprosy.2Kings5:27. white skin is fair skin, only a fool believes that . DNA does not lie it stands in a court of law. Again this 2020 not 1620 . Logic and common sense , having a disease is not a good thing, but calling a physiological disease of nature a race in 2020 is 1620 uneducated mental ignorance.

[@sksman71]

@@iloveyouiyes5439 just because white skin might be or is because a specific gene mutation does not mean its a disease.

[@lloydaaronmenioria4447]

I noticed Irish is way lighter than British

[@majuscule8883]

True but that's because of the Roman invasion, followed by centuries of French occupation and immigration from Europe through France. Ireland was preserved from immigration by distance, the sea and the horrible weather.

[@Sean-jc6cu]

It's not lol

[@eytharburhan8869]

They look very similar

[@MichaelMcCausland-pg6qs]

8000 years ago I think you need to go look at your history my friend it’s more like 30,000 years ago. Ireland

[@aurorastar7127]

Come to Ireland for a month and you will find out why.... bring the ☀ and good weather with you.

[@dlg3389]

Where in the Middle East did this man come from? What country, specifically?

[@greaterbharat4175]

Theory is either south asia ( of westen india current afghan ,pak and hariyana region ) or middle east ( video maker doesnt even disclosed it ) by the way irish folk have much similarity with indian folk than middle eastern , also evidence of "redhead" is people has being found mass populated before ice age in afghanistan ,kashmir and eastern china

[@fightfannerd2078]

@@greaterbharat4175 nope

[@Revelations2.9]

Oh well that can’t be true the first ever sign of man was actually found in Lithuania so it could possibly be the Middle East

[@patriciabalihood2281]

I'm a mutant

[@KevinBrady-fy3cx]

I am half Irish and half Highland Scots. My veins are clearly visible beneath my paperwhite skin.

[@leonardgibney2997]

With Irish ancestry my skin used to be as white as the background to this post. People used to laugh when l took off my shirt.

[@moemcgovern7345]

I have plenty of freckles.

[@patriciabalihood2281]

So I'm middle East? If I'm Irish? Help I'm a slow learner

[@IrelandCallingDaily]

Only if you want to go back 10,000 years :-)

[@Joe-rr3ip]

@@IrelandCallingDaily You know what you are if you're not Irish? Ashamed😂

[@andino_usa3302]

Wow redheads came from the middle East

[@ThatisnotHair]

It actually actually originated from northwest Iran

[@michaelwoodsmccausland5633]

Auslane/Absolom

[@michaelhalsall5684]

Viking heritage perhaps?

[@StuartFuckingLittle]

Im Irish and my whole family is spanish looking from south of Ireland (Cork). So I wouldn't say its necessarily like that

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

The vast majority of Irish people are pale skinned, there are exceptions of course.

[@lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559]

That's because of Spanish ships docking in the ports of the south and west of Ireland though.

[@StuartFuckingLittle]

@@lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559 Didn't see any spanish on the DNA tests.. But then again how factual are these things? lol. It could be that they are 'original' Irish so to speak, before the norsemen came over. Who knows..

[@StuartFuckingLittle]

@Number Nine Yeah, I'd agree with you there.

[@irishcountrygirl78]

Yeah either Spanish sailor (settlers) or you're of the original Irish, dark hair and darker skin than that of nowadays.

[@Pharaohof21stcentury]

You mention half truth The real research was that ancestor came from India

[@psychicrenegade]

I'm definitely a whitey!

[@SILENCEINTHESOULS]

Get a dna test to find pur

[@djdavisiscool]

The single gene sure

[@archez8363]

I read somewhere that red hair originated in Samaria. Which is apparently Palestine! Have also read that red hair is a faulty gene?

[@LizRoe-ky4hr]

De cheek of it faulty feckin gene you insult so many with that sweeping statement.It is true that Redheads have some very unique characteristics ie they can produce their own vitamin D, there threshold to pain is higher, female redheads need 20% more anesthetiser in surgery, they age slower & grey slower than others just a few of the superpowers 👩‍🦰 👨‍🦰 reds possess.

[@iloveyouiyes5439]

This is 2020 not 1620 USA genetic scientist in 2005 discovered an diseased mutated gene responsible the production of white skin. They indicated that not only is white skin a mutation an not a race, it qualifies as an auto immune disease , in that it prevent the body from producing a normal amount of melanin. The Holy Bible indicates white skin is biblical leprosy.2Kings5:27. white skin is fair skin, only a fool believes that . DNA does not lie it stands in a court of law. Again this 2020 not 1620 . Logic and common sense , having a disease is not a good thing, but calling a physiological disease of nature a race in 2020 is 1620 uneducated mental ignorance.

[@user-rb5eh7yo2m]

Palestinian music or alot of middle eastern music have a bagpipe sound to it... Bastardized celtic music.

[@jjoo6229]

Searching for the truth in Irish history is one of the most trickiest eneavors. The Romans engineered an enormous cover up of epic proportions when they stole christianity from the Irish who were teaching Europe how to connect with the higher soul.