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evidence of any Inuit or other peoples in Ireland?

jman0 · 2006-08-09 16:26:28

I was just wondering if anybody has heard of any references about Inuit or Eskimo or other similar people coming to Ireland in pre-history times? I'd heard once that before setting sail for the New World Christopher Columbus had visited Galway to pray, having found at some point 2 bodies had washed ashore that were taken…

09-08-2006 4:26pm

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I was just wondering if anybody has heard of any references about Inuit or Eskimo or other similar people coming to Ireland in pre-history times?
I'd heard once that before setting sail for the New World Christopher Columbus had visited Galway to pray, having found at some point 2 bodies had washed ashore that were taken as chinese, when infact they were probably Inuit indians or something.

I was wondering if it's possible some of these early inhabitants of ireland (in mythology) may have actually been some Inuit tribe or something.

When i visited the National Museum in Dublin there's a skeleton of a woman that's supposed to be the oldest human remains discovered here, and i was particularly taken by the fact that her skull had such a flat nose bone, very like you might expect on person of mongoloid genes.

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