where did the people of Ireland originally come from ?
2007-02-09 12:50:08 · 9 answers · asked by jjc3333 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Africa or the Garden of Eden, depending on whether you believe in Evolution or Creation.
No one knows where the Picts came from. They were probably a Celtic tribe, and they are the first "Irish" whose name we know. Not the original settler, just the first whose name we know. There were other Celtic tribes too, some with their own name, some just "Celt". No one knows how many waves came over, either to invade or to settle in a glen no one else had claimed. The Gaels, anoher Celtic tribe, were the last invaders before the Normans. The Vikings added some tall, blond genes to the pool now and again. Some Angles and Saxons sailed over to see what they could steal, now and again.
There were neolithic hunter-gatherers in Ireland right after the glaciers from the last ice age receeded. There were humans there before the last ice age too.
You get into the Neanderthal controversy - invasion, inter-breeding or some combination?
There are 400-page books and History channel programs on the subject of human settlement in the British Islands and Ireland. It gets both complicated and controversial. The mists of time hide more than they reveal. A good answer would take more than a YA post.
2007-02-09 13:09:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
initially, we've been from Arien Tribes from Southern Germany suggested as the Celts who had smaller tribes which blanketed some suggested as the Picts, Scots and we've been suggested as the GalesThe Gales disregarded of Southern Germany and went west into eire and settled there.
2016-10-01 21:36:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their own history places them on the northeast shore of the Black sea. However history starts with them in Hoffstien, Austria. The Ancient Greeks knew them as the Keltoi (Celts). In archeology, they are known as the fathers of Europe.
2007-02-09 12:55:37 · answer #3 · answered by Sophist 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
why those darn little irishmen were celts coming from hermitsville. ugly little farts they were. but sure knew how to grow a good tater. but thats all. not very smart til they started breeding with the germans and such.
2007-02-09 16:51:00 · answer #4 · answered by Kyle B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The heart of Heaven.
2007-02-09 13:33:07 · answer #5 · answered by Walking on Sunshine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The underside of a fourleaf clover!
2007-02-11 22:47:51 · answer #6 · answered by Countess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From Adam and Eve of course--just like the rest of us!
2007-02-09 12:54:24 · answer #7 · answered by katlvr125 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Africa like the rest of us.
2007-02-09 12:53:03 · answer #8 · answered by fatherf.lotski 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I read somewhere, Spain.
2007-02-09 13:18:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋