I know irish are irish?

Question

but who were the first in other words who discovered ireland

Answer 1

The first humans in Ireland apparently were Mesolithic, or Middle Stone Age persons. When the last Ice Age occurred, people fled south, occupying lands not covered by ice. England was still attached to the mainland, but Ireland was already an island and hence was probably the last place in Europe to be occupied.

The Celts, Picts, etc., all came by thousands of years later, deriving from the Black Sea area (remember? Cau-sa-cians!) Whites did not originate in the Caucasus...)

The first humans in Ireland are thought to have crossed from Scotland, in wooden boats, to what is now county Antrim around 8000BC. It is also thought that the rising land and rising sea levels may have moved at a fluctuating pace, occasionally allowing the southern land bridge to re-emerge from the Irish Sea, as well as a northern one connecting Antrim to Scotland. These would have lasted only briefly, but would have allowed the migrations of both humans and animals. There is a cultural continuity between the mesolithic remains found in north Ireland and those in southern Scotland. Ireland was one of the last parts of western Europe to have been settled by humans, and the human presence here is perhaps only about 10,000 years old.

These early hunters concentrated their activities on waterways, forraging on the shores of the sea, lakes and rivers. They rarely ventured into the forested interior, so Ireland's young ecosystem was almost totally unaffected by these early residents. The earliest concrete evidence of mesolithic activity in Ireland is to be found in county Antrim (which is Ireland's only source of flint), county Londonderry and county Sligo. Mount Sandel (county Londonderry) was excavated in the 1970s. The archaeologists found the remains of mesolithic huts and charcoal from cooking fires, and these have been dated to between 7000BC and 6500BC. 'The Curran' (near Larne in county Antrim) is a raised beach where archaeologists have found thousands of flint tools. In county Offaly, archaeologists uncovered evidence of a Mesolithic settlement at Lough Boora.

Evidence suggests that Ireland was initially populated from Scotland, although there must surely have been some migration from Wales and south-west England. Finds of Mesolithic tools (although not settlements) suggests that these hunters spread south down the east coast of Ireland and inland along rivers to the Shannon basin.

from the website:
http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/pre_norman_history/mesolithic_age.html

Answer 2

There were a people in Ireland before the coming of the Celts. The Scandinavians invaded after the Celts.

There is a book History of the Irish Race by Seumus MacManus. I have it somewhere but I had a housefire in January 2006 and some of my books are at a friend's house.

The Celts that setttled Ireland were called Scotti. There was a time when Ireland was called Scotia. Some of the Scotti left Ireland and went to Caledonia and it became Scotland.

Answer 3

A funny thing about Northern Ireland is that the Picts were inhabiting it before the Hibernians. When the Scots started settling in Northern Ireland they were considered foreign invaders by Irish Republicans but really they were just coming back to their homeland.
The origin of the Picts is uncertain but they were in Ireland a long time ago.

"The Picts, the British aborigines, driven by the Celts into isolated pockets where they made a stand against the conquerors, survived the Celtic Conquest in scattered remnants throughout the British Isles. The native Britons, the Picts, moved their capital from Aberffraw, Wales, across the Irish Sea, to Tara, Ireland, due to the advances of the invading Celts in Britain, thus, essentially founding a new kingdom, that is, the Kingdom of Tara, circa 750BC. Tara, Co. Meath, appears to have been one of three citadels in Ireland which were occupied at various times by the Pictish kings during the Middle Iron Age, and the others were Croghan, Co. Connaught, and Mach, Co. Ulster. The Picts still occupied considerable territories on the British mainland, it was just their capital-city or the royal residence which was moved to safety across the Irish Sea to Ireland to a more secure and defensible site."

Answer 4

We don't despise you exactly, but it does annoy us when you call yourselves 'Irish' - because to us, you're not. You're American. But with Irish ancestry. And this is where you come unstuck. If you do not have EU nationality, and this includes would include Irish nationality as Ireland is a member state of the EU, you cannot move to Ireland. The fact that you have Irish ancestry, are Catholic (which is now TOTALLY irrelevant, by the way, and the fact that you would think it is only proves how out of touch you are when it comes to modern Ireland), are fully ethnically Irish - what that means - has no bearing whatsoever on whether you can move to Ireland. However, if you have a parent or grandparent directly from Ireland, and can prove this, you MIGHT have a chance at Irish citizenship. Just don't go calling yourself Irish when you're in Ireland, because in the US it refers to someone's ethnic background and identity, here it means nationality. Your nationality is American. Incidentally, very few people living in Ireland actually speak Irish fluently. In fact, I heard of a story of two Connemara men in Dublin who were speaking Irish between themselves, and a local Dublin person heard them and started giving out about these 'foreigners' living here, and could they not learn to speak English. Apparently he was most put out to learn that they were speaking Irish, not Polish.

Answer 5

The Irish are generally made up from Celts who had their origin in indo/Europe and spread westwards as far as Ireland. Subsequent invasions, particularly of England caused the people there to become mixed with those from Scandinavia, France and Germany, and the Roman invasion, whilst to the far west and north, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Ireland were harder to access, and so, for the main part, the people remained pure celt, albeit with a liberal sprinkling of Norse.
The people from the northern parts of Ireland, mixed freely with those from the west of Scotland as explained in the humerous history book, "1066 and all that".

Answer 6

The Iron Age in Ireland was supposedly associated with people known as Celts. They are traditionally thought to have colonised Ireland in a series of waves between the 8th and 1st centuries BC, with the Gaels, the last wave of Celts, conquering the island and dividing it into five or more kingdoms

Answer 7

The people of these islands are a mixture of just about every nation on earth. The Irish are mainly descended from the Celts who invaded these islands about 10,000 years ago, displacing the previous inhabitants. The earlier people were known as the beaker folk, but little is known about them because they apparently had no writing.

When Julius Caesar came along, the people painted blue who put up a fight were Celts. It wasn't until the Angles and Saxons invaded about 1500 years ago that the Celts were squeezed out to Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany.

Answer 8

As everyone knows, all land was once joined together so Ireland would have been joined to Wales where I know were Celts, so theoretically The Irish originated from the Celts. It makes sense as the Irish are Gaelic and so are the Welsh.

Answer 9

Ireland is of Celtic descent. It was also inhabitated by the Picts at one time but no one really knows who or what they were. If you go to your local library they sould have a detailed book on the races and cultures of Ireland that can give more info than I've found on the net.

Answer 10

Hello again!! The first settlers came to Ireland after the Ice age (about 9000 years ago) from Iberia which now makes up modern day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar.