Scientists Reveal The Real Genetic Origin Of The Irish — It’s Not What You Think

Scientists Reveal The Real Genetic Origin Of The Irish — It’s Not What You Think 📘 Want to understand your own ancestry? We wrote two books for you: What Your DNA Is Really Telling You — a practical guide to reading your DNA results: what each ancestry component means, how haplogroups like R1b work, and how to spot percentages that sound precise but aren’t. Origins: The Ancient DNA Story of Every Human On Earth — 8 chapters on every major human migration, from Out of Africa to the first Europeans, the first farmers, the Steppe, Asia, the Americas, the Pacific and Africa. Get both here 👉 https://ancientdnafiles.gumroad.com/l/ujkmi ❤️ Support the channel on Patreon: https://patreon.com/AncientDNAFiles Inside Newgrange, a tomb older than the pyramids, scientists found a man whose parents were brother and sister, or parent and child. And that wasn’t even the biggest surprise ancient DNA had in store for Ireland. In this documentary, we follow the genetic story of the Irish from the first hunter-gatherers after the Ice Age, to the farmers who built Newgrange and may have been ruled by a dynasty, to the Bronze Age newcomers carrying Steppe ancestry who became the main ancestors of the Irish today. We ask where the Celts really fit in, what the Rathlin Island genomes revealed about haemochromatosis and blue eyes, and how the Irish DNA Atlas mapped genetic differences between the old provinces. We also cover the Vikings, the Normans, the Great Famine, and the truth behind the “Black Irish” Spanish Armada legend. Accuracy note: How Celtic languages reached Ireland is still debated; the genetic evidence shows no large Iron Age population replacement, but that does not settle the language question. There is no good genetic evidence for the Spanish Armada “Black Irish” story. Ancestry percentages from commercial tests and hobbyist calculators struggle to separate Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English ancestry and should be treated as estimates. We do not rank communities. Sources: Cassidy et al. (2020). A dynastic elite in monumental Neolithic society. Nature. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7116870/ Cassidy et al. (2016). Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome. PNAS. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4720318/ Olalde et al. (2018). The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe. Nature. https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/129642/ Gilbert et al. (2017). The Irish DNA Atlas: Revealing fine-scale population structure and history within Ireland. Scientific Reports. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5722868/ Research Ireland: First-degree incest in early Ireland — ancient genomes uncover a dynastic elite. https://www.research.ie/what-we-do/loveirishresearch/blog/first-degree-incest-in-early-ireland-ancient-genomes-uncover-a-dynastic-elite-in-irish-passage-tomb-societies/ #AncientDNA #Ireland #IrishHistory Tags (30): irish dna, irish ancestry, genetic origin of the irish, where do the irish come from, irish origins, are the irish celtic, celts dna, newgrange, newgrange dna, newgrange incest, neolithic ireland, bronze age ireland, steppe ancestry, rathlin island, ballynahatty woman, irish dna atlas, r1b l21, irish haplogroup, black irish myth, spanish armada ireland, celtic disease haemochromatosis, red hair genetics, vikings in ireland, normans in ireland, great famine ireland, irish diaspora, ancient ireland documentary, ancient dna documentary, european genetic history, forbidden dna origin