The gaels (more accurately the people who would become the gaels, replaced about 90% of the Neolithic population around 4500 years ago. The Neolithic farmers had replaced the first hunter gatherer population around 2000-3000 years or so before that. Dr. Lara Cassidy and Dr. Bradley of Trinity College have done great work on this.
I’m not sure about complete population replacement Northern Europeans of which the Irish are most definitely part of seems to be fairly covered in that most Northern Europeans DNA has a very tiny bit of Neanderthal DNA a small amount of Western hunter gatherer DNA. A certain amount of of Neolithic farmer DNA a huge chunk of proto indo European DNA possibly Yamnaya culture which led to a lot of intermixing voluntary or not as it’s the male Neolithic DNA which is replaced not the female this led to the corded ware culture which evolved into the Celtic and Germanic cultures there is a fairly widespread theory that the celts were not a definite ethnicity but a linguistic and cultural one an early lingua Franca so to speak for instance you put a German a Brit and an Irishmen naked in a room and you probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference until they opened their mouths
Not really dude they're Celts they try to muddy the water because for the last 20 years they've tried to destroy the Celtic identity because the last time we had a Celtic Renaissance or Gaelic Renaissance look what happened Ireland became 96% free and now they're terrified that the rest of the Celtic nations are going to want their freedom because you know we're known to be a freedom loving people
@@IrishMedievalHistory I think some of the latest studies from 4or 5 years ago that the original hunter gathers in the mesolithic were replaced by Anatolian farmers. Not completely replaced but a large part. Then came the chalcolithic/early bronze age when in the western isles over 90 percent of the population was replaced again. This time by the Bell breaker people. Even though they carried a good deal of Anatolian farmer DNA it was from further east and not local. Present day people seem to cluster with the Bell breaker people. I believe the first Bell breaker came from the Netherland and the surrounding areas with later DNA coming in from Spain with a lot of mDNA so probably women being traded
By the, theres a small area near Fore, Co Westmeath with all kinds of earthworks and drumlins, its almost as if it was a meeting point between Norman Meath and Gaelic Ulster, where the clans would meet to sort things out annually, could be just my imagination
@@IrishMedievalHistory unfortunately these lads mostly built in wood, so we only have the earth shapes to judge by......I'm off to do a bit of cattle raiding!
I identify as a Gael, from Old Irish Goídel (“Irishman”), and before that a loanword from Old Welsh Guoidel (“wild man, warrior”) and before that from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“wood, wilderness”). The root of the name Gael is cognate at the Proto-Celtic level with Old Irish fíad 'wild', and Féni, derived ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weidh-n-jo-. This latter word is the origin of Fianna and Fenian. Where I grew up is the joined parishes of Feenagh-Kilmeedy in County Limerick. In the area of Limerick and parts of adjacent modern counties was a kingdom of clans known as the Wood-Sprung People, or people of the wood. The Uí Fidgenti. Feenagh, or Fíodhnach in Gaelic meaning 'wooded place'. Uí Fidgenti, Fidgeinti, Fidgheinte, Fidugeinte, Fidgente, or Fidgeinte (/iː ˈfiːjɛnti/ or /ˈfiːjɛntə/; "descendants of, or of the tribe of, Fidgenti") Hence, Gael is cognate with Fidgenti and Feenagh. Fiodh-Inis, or Woody-Island in Gaelic is another name for the island of Ireland. In Irish mythology, Fódla or Fótla (modern spelling: Fódhla or Fóla) In Scottish Gaelic the name is Athall, which derives from the Old Irish Ath-fhotla, or 'New Ireland', (Fotla being a traditional name for Ireland). This is thought to derive from the period of Gaelic settlement of Scotland, which was previously inhabited by the Picts. Ollom Fotla ("the scholar of Fódla", a poetic term for Ireland; later spelled Ollamh Fodhla), son of Fíachu Fínscothach, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. Fódhla, from a queen of the Tuath Dé Danann, who was called Fódhla: it is she was wife to Mac Cécht, whose proper name was Teathúr. An Aonach or Óenach was an ancient Irish public National Assembly called upon the death of a king, queen, notable sage or warrior as part of ancestor worship practices. As well as the entertainment, the óenach was an occasion on which kings and notables met under truce and where laws were pronounced and confirmed. The Ollamh Érenn [ˈolaṽ ˈeːrʲenʲ] or Chief Ollam of Ireland was a professional title of Gaelic Ireland. Over all the provincial ollams was the Ard-Ollamh (Rí-Ollam, Rí-Eigeas, Príméces) who held the official post of Chief-Ollamh of Ireland or "Ollamh Érenn". One of the Latin translations for the verb, to raid, is scrutor. {'Hibernia a Scotorum gentibus colitur.'} 'It is the Scotic races that inhabit Ireland.' Paulus Orosius (born c. 375, died after 418) Latin for Gaelic is Scotica. The Romans referred to the Irish/Gaels as, raiders. Hence, Scoti. Canes Scotici Irish wolfhounds were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his treatise, The Gallic Wars,[6] and by 391 AD, they were written about by Roman Consul, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who received seven of them, "canes Scotici", as a gift to be used for fighting lions and bears, in his words, "all Rome viewed (them) with wonder". To distinguish between the two countries, various Latin writers, from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, mention Ireland as Scotia Vetus or old Scotia, and Scotia Major or the Greater Scotia; and Scotland, as Scotia Minor or the Lesser Scotia; and the Irish were called Scoto-Ierni and Scoto-Hiberni or Hibernian Scots, and the people of Scotland Scoti-Albani or Albanian Scots. And it originally comes from Greek, prior to Latin. Σκότος, Σκοτία (Scotos, Scotia)--dark. Not sunny like the Aegean. Interestingly Albion is the oldest name for the island of Britain, meaning white or bright. So one could refer, poetically, to the dark and bright islands. Alba in Scottish Gaelic, Albain in Irish, Nalbin in Manx and Alban in Welsh, Cornish and Breton. These names were later Latinised as Albania. I looked up the meaning of the name of the parish where I now live, Firies. If you’ve ever been to Kerry airport, you’ve been there. I have being collecting the Irish spellings for it, and here is what I came up with ... Firies, officially Fieries. Na Fogthre Fiodh Ros Na Foithre Na Foidhrí. A school dictionary stated for, Foithre : Wooded hollow, dingle, dell; (woodland , mountain) pasture; steep slope towards precipice. Foscadh, 1. shade, shadow. 2. shelter. Ar fhoscadh na gcrann, in the shelter of trees. Fódaithe sa talamh, firmly planted in the ground. Tú féin a fhódú in áit, to firmly implant oneself in a place. At fhód faoi leith, in a place apart. Fóid chaola seachráin, place where one might go astray. Fódach, well-sodded. Well-established, firmly fixed. Ros, wood, wooded heartland. Headland, promontory.
@ClannCholmain Thsts quite sn essay, pal. Let's get your writing published. 😉 Lucky fokker, I'm only 53% and that's mixed with Welsh, Asian and African. Can't call the irish racists, they shagged everyone. 😂
Definitely more complicated then it sounds. I saw a video on Dianne Jennings channel a while back on Irish surnames. She said something along the lines that after vikings/normans came to Ireland, they wanted to have their own surnames to assimilate. Supposedly we gave them the name Doyle which she said meant something along the lines of dark hearted foreigners. I don't know how accurate that information is. I think she said she was taught it in school. Still pretty interesting subject. ✌️🤞☝️❣️🇮🇪
They are the tribes of peoples that Saint Patrick (A Roman Britton) converted to the Catholic faith. Any discussion on Gaelic identity that avoids this fact is incomplete.
@@IrishMedievalHistory Agreed. We have confabulations of Gaelic history written by Christianized scribes. I guess there’s a remote possibility that some non-Christianized Gaelic scribe wrote a history that is yet to be discovered but, we can’t expect such a discovery.
@FionanUaMurchadha Not to mention, the vast majority of families who trace their origin back to Gaels still genetically are basically the same people with the same last names. Very often concentrated in the same area as their clan strongholds.
You dont think they exist? Go to Oireachtas na Samhna and you will.meet them in their thousands socialising and singing songs in their unique Gaelic style handed down over millenia.
The gaels (more accurately the people who would become the gaels, replaced about 90% of the Neolithic population around 4500 years ago. The Neolithic farmers had replaced the first hunter gatherer population around 2000-3000 years or so before that. Dr. Lara Cassidy and Dr. Bradley of Trinity College have done great work on this.
What year are these sources? They seem to go back and forth with the "Celtic DNA" arguments last time I was reading about it.
I’m not sure about complete population replacement Northern Europeans of which the Irish are most definitely part of seems to be fairly covered in that most Northern Europeans DNA has a very tiny bit of Neanderthal DNA a small amount of Western hunter gatherer DNA. A certain amount of of Neolithic farmer DNA a huge chunk of proto indo European DNA possibly Yamnaya culture which led to a lot of intermixing voluntary or not as it’s the male Neolithic DNA which is replaced not the female this led to the corded ware culture which evolved into the Celtic and Germanic cultures there is a fairly widespread theory that the celts were not a definite ethnicity but a linguistic and cultural one an early lingua Franca so to speak for instance you put a German a Brit and an Irishmen naked in a room and you probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference until they opened their mouths
@@IrishMedievalHistory pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5973796/
Not really dude they're Celts they try to muddy the water because for the last 20 years they've tried to destroy the Celtic identity because the last time we had a Celtic Renaissance or Gaelic Renaissance look what happened Ireland became 96% free and now they're terrified that the rest of the Celtic nations are going to want their freedom because you know we're known to be a freedom loving people
@@IrishMedievalHistory I think some of the latest studies from 4or 5 years ago that the original hunter gathers in the mesolithic were replaced by Anatolian farmers. Not completely replaced but a large part. Then came the chalcolithic/early bronze age when in the western isles over 90 percent of the population was replaced again. This time by the Bell breaker people. Even though they carried a good deal of Anatolian farmer DNA it was from further east and not local. Present day people seem to cluster with the Bell breaker people. I believe the first Bell breaker came from the Netherland and the surrounding areas with later DNA coming in from Spain with a lot of mDNA so probably women being traded
Loving this content man! 👏
Your welcome man!
By the, theres a small area near Fore, Co Westmeath with all kinds of earthworks and drumlins, its almost as if it was a meeting point between Norman Meath and Gaelic Ulster, where the clans would meet to sort things out annually, could be just my imagination
That's quite interesting. I'll have to keep an eye on that.
@@IrishMedievalHistory unfortunately these lads mostly built in wood, so we only have the earth shapes to judge by......I'm off to do a bit of cattle raiding!
@@RaeKearns don't man. There's a winter storm coming to hitting in few hours.
I identify as a Gael, from Old Irish Goídel (“Irishman”), and before that a loanword from Old Welsh Guoidel (“wild man, warrior”) and before that from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“wood, wilderness”).
The root of the name Gael is cognate at the Proto-Celtic level with Old Irish fíad 'wild', and Féni, derived ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weidh-n-jo-.
This latter word is the origin of Fianna and Fenian.
Where I grew up is the joined parishes of Feenagh-Kilmeedy in County Limerick.
In the area of Limerick and parts of adjacent modern counties was a kingdom of clans known as the Wood-Sprung People, or people of the wood.
The Uí Fidgenti.
Feenagh, or Fíodhnach in Gaelic meaning 'wooded place'.
Uí Fidgenti, Fidgeinti, Fidgheinte, Fidugeinte, Fidgente, or Fidgeinte (/iː ˈfiːjɛnti/ or /ˈfiːjɛntə/; "descendants of, or of the tribe of, Fidgenti")
Hence, Gael is cognate with Fidgenti and Feenagh.
Fiodh-Inis, or Woody-Island in Gaelic is another name for the island of Ireland.
In Irish mythology, Fódla or Fótla (modern spelling: Fódhla or Fóla)
In Scottish Gaelic the name is Athall, which derives from the Old Irish Ath-fhotla, or 'New Ireland', (Fotla being a traditional name for Ireland). This is thought to derive from the period of Gaelic settlement of Scotland, which was previously inhabited by the Picts.
Ollom Fotla ("the scholar of Fódla", a poetic term for Ireland; later spelled Ollamh Fodhla), son of Fíachu Fínscothach, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland.
Fódhla, from a queen of the Tuath Dé Danann, who was called Fódhla: it is she was wife to Mac Cécht, whose proper name was Teathúr.
An Aonach or Óenach was an ancient Irish public National Assembly called upon the death of a king, queen, notable sage or warrior as part of ancestor worship practices. As well as the entertainment, the óenach was an occasion on which kings and notables met under truce and where laws were pronounced and confirmed.
The Ollamh Érenn [ˈolaṽ ˈeːrʲenʲ] or Chief Ollam of Ireland was a professional title of Gaelic Ireland.
Over all the provincial ollams was the Ard-Ollamh (Rí-Ollam, Rí-Eigeas, Príméces) who held the official post of Chief-Ollamh of Ireland or "Ollamh Érenn".
One of the Latin translations for the verb, to raid, is scrutor.
{'Hibernia a Scotorum gentibus colitur.'}
'It is the Scotic races that inhabit Ireland.'
Paulus Orosius (born c. 375, died after 418)
Latin for Gaelic is Scotica.
The Romans referred to the Irish/Gaels as, raiders.
Hence, Scoti.
Canes Scotici
Irish wolfhounds were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his treatise, The Gallic Wars,[6] and by 391 AD, they were written about by Roman Consul, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who received seven of them, "canes Scotici", as a gift to be used for fighting lions and bears, in his words, "all Rome viewed (them) with wonder".
To distinguish between the two countries, various Latin writers, from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, mention Ireland as Scotia Vetus or old Scotia, and Scotia Major or the Greater Scotia; and Scotland, as Scotia Minor or the Lesser Scotia; and the Irish were called Scoto-Ierni and Scoto-Hiberni or Hibernian Scots, and the people of Scotland Scoti-Albani or Albanian Scots.
And it originally comes from Greek, prior to Latin. Σκότος, Σκοτία (Scotos, Scotia)--dark. Not sunny like the Aegean.
Interestingly Albion is the oldest name for the island of Britain, meaning white or bright.
So one could refer, poetically, to the dark and bright islands.
Alba in Scottish Gaelic, Albain in Irish, Nalbin in Manx and Alban in Welsh, Cornish and Breton. These names were later Latinised as Albania.
I looked up the meaning of the name of the parish where I now live, Firies. If you’ve ever been to Kerry airport, you’ve been there.
I have being collecting the Irish spellings for it, and here is what I came up with ...
Firies, officially Fieries.
Na Fogthre
Fiodh Ros
Na Foithre
Na Foidhrí.
A school dictionary stated for, Foithre :
Wooded hollow, dingle, dell; (woodland , mountain) pasture; steep slope towards precipice.
Foscadh, 1. shade, shadow. 2. shelter.
Ar fhoscadh na gcrann, in the shelter of trees.
Fódaithe sa talamh, firmly planted in the ground.
Tú féin a fhódú in áit, to firmly implant oneself in a place.
At fhód faoi leith, in a place apart.
Fóid chaola seachráin, place where one might go astray.
Fódach, well-sodded. Well-established, firmly fixed.
Ros, wood, wooded heartland.
Headland, promontory.
ps.
My DNA test came back 97% Irish and 3% Scottish.
@@ClannCholmain very good!
@ClannCholmain Thsts quite sn essay, pal. Let's get your writing published. 😉
Lucky fokker, I'm only 53% and that's mixed with Welsh, Asian and African. Can't call the irish racists, they shagged everyone. 😂
@@IrishMedievalHistory The native Gaelic term for the Gaels comes from the Britons? That sounds like just more British hubris.
Definitely more complicated then it sounds. I saw a video on Dianne Jennings channel a while back on Irish surnames. She said something along the lines that after vikings/normans came to Ireland, they wanted to have their own surnames to assimilate. Supposedly we gave them the name Doyle which she said meant something along the lines of dark hearted foreigners. I don't know how accurate that information is. I think she said she was taught it in school. Still pretty interesting subject. ✌️🤞☝️❣️🇮🇪
She's on the right path, just way more to it.
There are no native gealic people, gealics came from Normandy they were originally Gauls.
They were all white
Na Daoine le Gaelach ag Síad, seo é na Gaelaigh agus na Daoine le stáir agus scéal le na Páistí na n'Gael, sean agus nua!
Cool video, but that ai pic is awful
They are the tribes of peoples that Saint Patrick (A Roman Britton) converted to the Catholic faith. Any discussion on Gaelic identity that avoids this fact is incomplete.
I would have to disagree with that one.
Saint Patrick was not Catholic, but he did preach the Christian faith.
@@IrishMedievalHistory Agreed. We have confabulations of Gaelic history written by Christianized scribes. I guess there’s a remote possibility that some non-Christianized Gaelic scribe wrote a history that is yet to be discovered but, we can’t expect such a discovery.
Who "were " the gaelic . They no longer exist
Yes and no, they Gaels no longer exist in their original form but their surnames live on
@FionanUaMurchadha Not to mention, the vast majority of families who trace their origin back to Gaels still genetically are basically the same people with the same last names. Very often concentrated in the same area as their clan strongholds.
@@dublingraphicdesignmeetup2936 geneticly means nothing much we're all mixed-up . More important was the culture ; once its gone , you are no more
They still exist in the Gaeltacht.
You dont think they exist? Go to Oireachtas na Samhna and you will.meet them in their thousands socialising and singing songs in their unique Gaelic style handed down over millenia.
I don't like gaelic....it gives me wind.
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