An United Ireland Will Never Be At Peace

That website says that Irish people are not historically Celts at all, maybe that's true of Ulster or Scotland or whatever but there are historical records of Gallo - Belgae settlement of South & Eastern Ireland similar to Southern England & other parts of the North West European region. Maybe perhaps we have more in common with the English then?

And would someone please explain to me why my mothers maiden name is Iriish Gaelic fot Belguim? :rolleyes:

No sane Irish person would deny that the Irish people are a mix of many settlers & invaders including meself with Norse, Flemish, Anglo Saxon & English family names but those eegits try to say we are all Neolithic inbreeds.

You couldn't make it up!!

purplepanda wrote: »

That website says that Irish people are not historically Celts at all, maybe that's true of Ulster or Scotland or whatever but there are historical records of Gallo - Belgae settlement of South & Eastern Ireland similar to Southern England & other parts of the North West European region. Maybe perhaps we have more in common with the English then?

And would someone please explain to me why my mothers maiden name is Iriish Gaelic fot Belguim? :rolleyes:

No sane Irish person would deny that the Irish people are a mix of many settlers & invaders including meself with Norse, Flemish, Anglo Saxon & English family names but those eegits try to say we are all Neolithic inbreeds.

You couldn't make it up!!

Yes your right in saying most Irish people have a mix of blood these days, however our DNA has greater similarities to people from Spain and Portugal in areas such as the Basque region, and less similar to people from mainland Britain. The study was carried out a few years ago by a group of scientists Ill try find a link to it

*scrolls down, scrolls down, scrolls down, scrolls down*

"Where is keith, where is keith.... OMFG IN BEFORE KEITHAFC!!!!!!"

about my above post this story discusses are gene pool and talks about how Ireland and the UK has strong links to the Basque region with Ireland being significantly higher.


http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/dna-blueprint-of-the-irish-revealed-2333700.html

baz2009 wrote: »

Is that for fcuking real?



"An United" sounds wrong, imo.

Stuck out like a sore thumb to me too.

"An" is only used when preceding a vowel sounding word as far as I know.

As in, an elephant, an apple, an umbrella etc etc.

I am always baffled when I mostly hear and see 'an' before the word 'historical.'

Mr Cork Man wrote: »

An United Ireland Will Never Be At Peace

mike65 wrote: »

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baz2009 wrote: »

"An United" sounds wrong, imo.

walshb wrote: »

Stuck out like a sore thumb to me too.

"An" is only used when preceding a vowel sounding word as far as I know.

As in, an elephant, an apple, an umbrella etc etc.

I am always baffled when I mostly hear and see 'an' before the word 'historical.'

hehe, well done lads. This lesson was given earlier this week but for all of his professions of loyalty to Her Majesty, Mr Cork Man doesn't seem to have much regard for the Queen's English. :pac:

In a sentence: as walshb said 'an' comes before a vowel sound, not a vowel.

Ergo, 'an amazing' 'an exceptional' 'an idiot' 'an orange' 'an utterly' (hmmm any nouns beginning with 'u' that have a vowel sound?), but 'a united'.

Note: 'a historic' is correct in Ireland because the vast majority of people pronounce the 'h'. In some parts of Britain they follow the Latin precedent and drop the 'h' in pronunciation with words of Latin origin - e.g. they live in 'an 'ouse' and stay in 'an 'otel', etc. However, according to the OED even in Britain 'a historic', 'a hotel' etc is preferred today.


We should have a grammar Nazi thread stickied at the top of Afterhours, entitled 'Your' is not the same as 'You're'. 'There' is not the same as 'They're' or 'Their'.

purplepanda wrote: »

That story has no links at all to the research or who carried it out, if the paper won't cite their sources, they can't expect to be taken seriously at all.

here is another story on it:

http://killarney-ireland.info/genealogy/dark-irish-celt-genealogy.html

And they got there information from The American Journal of Human Genetics if your still not satisfied I suggest you take a read of the journal, I think the article provides a link to it.