Please note *Newgrange is aligned to the Winter Solstice, not the Summer Solstice.* My mistake. Amazing revelations from Ireland. I’m half Irish so this is of great interest to me. I’ll be making a trip over as soon as I can and making many videos of the trip. Make sure to subscribe so you can come too!

I don't really feel like I mean much to anybody, but watching these videos give me so much pride in my ancestors it doesn't even matter if im lonely or not im happy that im descended from such amazing people! Thank you 💚

Newgrange is so well built, the inner chamber is dry as a bone. They mention on the tour, modern experts are not sure how the ancients managed to seal the stone so well. Some damp would surely make it in somehow after this huge length of time, but no. The inner chamber is as dry now as it was the day it was built.

I absolutely love this. My parents were both Irish, dad from Mayo, mum from Roscommon, although I was born and brought up in England. I’ve been obsessed with stone circles since watching Children of the Stones aged 8, and recently had my own stone circle put in my garden. I’ve visited Newgrange, Knowth etc and they are absolutely amazing. And I believe ancient oral traditions are proving more resilient for thousands of years than ever realised. There’s a similar oral tradition about a golden boy related to an ancient monument, and an amazing golden cape in a small size has been found within it. Mold cape, found in Wales.

I love Ireland too I’m half Irish & Samoan love to you all.

Can't believe I'm in my mid 30s and I've never been to Newgrange and it's only an hours drive from me. 2020 is the year I'll do it

I visited Newgrange with my husband a few years ago….. I walked in and immediately felt the magic of the place… I had personal revelations there and I am determined to go back. If you get the chance don’t miss it!

I have Irish ancestors but until now I was completely unaware of this Irish history. I certainly want to know more. I find this fascinating.

Being i irish and living 30 mins from newgrange this is much appreciated thanks

I am an industrial man. When I see these normous constructions, it is very hard for me to accept, that this was built only with the common tools of those times. Who knows a bit about industry, will see quickly, what enormous kind of organization and labor force is needed - not only for having builders, but also a whole infrastructure around them. These are normally life-long works - if ia lifetime should be enough. It remains enigmatic for me and I cannot help to think, that there lived somebody in those times, who knew a lot more about things than we do in nowadays. I appreciate your work. Have seen a lot of your videos.

I think of lots of ancient history may be remembered in mythology, like for example in the Leabar na Gabála Éirinn (the book of Irish invasions) they describe a heavily mythologized version of the very same journey described here that’s the first farmers would’ve taken to gets to Ireland, including the idea that they may have came from somewhere in the middle east sailed around the Mediterranean stayed in Spain or Portugal for a little while and then finally moved north into Ireland. They also seem to have preserved the memory of the Indo-European migrations, with them also saying that part of the Irish come from Ukraine, and a second wave having come later on and displaced the old group. It’s just very odd how particularly correct they were even if the story was simplified...

I wasn't born yesterday, and I know the incest problem was not always initiated out of lust, but out of spiritual beliefs. Your study gives hope to us who's lineage is based in that part of the world. I'll study along with you. The best to you.

The evidence of long term links all along the Atlantic coast is growing. So far this year I leaned the Spanish Arch stone work in Galway predates Norman Irish masonry and matches exactly stonework form Portugal and Morocco. The mouth blown bagpipes of Ireland share origins with the type in Brittany, France, Galicia and Portugal. Links with Gaelic Irish society and beforehand are mentioned in history all along the west European Atlantic coastal countries. Great video.

Been to Newgrange many years ago. Love Ireland. Special.

Its all good, I come from the McClure's and Connelly's of Ireland, I am my own 5th cousin.

Thank you im northern Irish yet was taught very little about the land an history of my country 🍀

I remember visiting as a school child. Our bus parked beside a Farmers gate and we spent an hour climbing on the rocks and got the chance to into the burial chamber at the centre. As a ten year old I doubt I appreciated this amazing place. Skip the Guinness factory. Bru na Boinne is a fantastic area of Ireland to visit today.

Great video man. I have been to Newgrange twice. It's amazing, and it's a very special place around the whole Boyne Valley area. There's other amazing ancient sites there within walking distance, like Knowth. :)

Have you heard of or read "Ireland" by Frank Delaney? It's a tale of an Irish Story Teller whose tale called "The Architect of Newgrange" describes how the monument came to be. The monument was conceived and constructed by one man, who employed others to haul stones from all over the vicinity to build it, and it took about 12 years to construct. It was meant to be a monument to the Ancestors, out of respect for their forebears. The Architect is described as a very tall thin man with bright red hair who was reclusive and who loved stones with such great passion and intimacy. that he could do whatever he wanted with them.

I could listen to the combination of your voice and the soundtrack of this video all day. According to my DNA report, I have some Irish ancestry and my maternal DNA arose in or around Anatolia. So this topic is very interesting to me.

This was an awesome video! So glad I discovered this channel. Can't wait to see what the other channels are like. Excellent content!

Great bit of History! Am English and it seems to me.. We don't get too much history on lreland..

I have been there when i lived in Ireland. It is amazing.

My brother died and went to Newgrange, he told me he would. His dear presence will bless you.

Cannot tell you how much I enjoy all of your channels. It's simply astounding to learn what people could achieve so long ago. Even more astoundig to learn how little we actually know about them. Imagine capturing the solstice with mathematical precision when people didn't appear to have developed writing yet. Maybe it can be done merely by keen observation, trial and error, but with solstices occuring only twice a year it's a breathtaking achievement nonetheless.

It was not the planting of crops that they were interested in, it was the movement of the heavens (which was organised by the gods). And the heavenly bodies were gods themselves. We do the same today with stories like Snow White (SW). SW was the Pale White Moon, followed by her seven (dwarf) planets, that follow the Moon around the ecliptic in a long line. The evil witch put a corset on SW, and pulled it tight to make her thinner and thinner (the waning Moon), until SW Moon ‘died’ (a New Moon). The SW Moon then kisses the handsome Sun prince (a solar eclipse) and comes back to life (waxing crescent Moon). Remember an eclipse can only occur at the New Moon, when the SW Moon has ‘died’.) Ralph

Pete, thank you for your wonderful videos. You are making the Covid isolation bearable as I explore your many videos on history. I caught a partial comment about trouble with your background music, which I hope is resolved soon. I appreciate that you do not override the narrative with music as some do. I am also fond of your humor. Thank you so much, I am a bit of a Luddite and couldn't find you to contribute, but would like to.

OUTSTANDING, just learning about my heritage. King, Cronin, Ryan, Burke, FitzGerald of Limerick

Dude I feel luck to have found your site. I appreciate a realistic presentation of humankind's migration and the origins of our species

Puts new meaning to "keeping it in the family". Well presented. Thanks for sharing. my fathers parents immigrated from Ireland. Must confess interest.👍☘☘☘👍

My DNA on one side shows I'm directly descended from High King Niall of Tara and yes it is Basque DNA. There seems to be links between Ireland and Egypt. Egyptian Princess Scotia was supposed to have settled in Kerry with her husband Prince Mil of Bregantia (now Coruna)in Northern Spain. He may have worked as a bodyguard at the court minding Pharoah like his father Bregan did apparently, that would explain how they met. Compare the light box at Newgrange to the one in Egypt, quite similar. Egyptian Faience beads found at Tara also. The people of the west are from even earlier tribes the De Dananns (people of Dan/Dana/Daniel) in Donegal, Thracian(Bulgarian) slaves in Connaught that were forced westwards by the Milesians (descendants of Mil). A few of the Milesians like CuChulainn went back to Scythia(Ukraine) to train in Scythian warfare.

Exceptionally interesting, we were there 3 years ago. It is a stunning place.

You know, the word 'Mythology' actually means something people once believed were true but no longer believe. It is possible that most mythologies are just histories misinterpreted and denied.

Excellent report! Funny how we are finding through DNA that the Anatolian-Mesopotamian region played a key roll in spreading global civilization. By the way, the Sumerian tablets explain the reason breeding between siblings was desirable by the top tiers. Perhaps if we pay closer attention to the stories left by the oldest civilizations in stone, clay and papyrus, instead of regarding them as mere "Mythology", we could recuperate part of our missing human history.

Interesting DNA information for Ireland ancestors! Thank you for sharing this update.

As children under 10 years old we were brought to newgrange for 4 years in a row for our school tour because we’re from co meath and only 20mins away but none of us had a clue what it was! Being in my mid 30s now, I’m making plans to go back again!

I have been in a few sites with those huge lines of standing stones in France, and the site size is just impressive. But now if you have to imagine those lines delimiting corridors and rooms covered by huge rock mounds, then this become completely absurd, maybe they planned on covering those and never were able to, but the idea still show how ridiculously large that enterprise is to begin with.

This is wonderful. I hope more is found out soon. I wonder if the same team working on this would do the same history researching around other ancient places. Dan Snow, Pete Kelly and company are awesome at what they do. Impressive 🤘🏿

The Tuatha Danaan are mentioned in The Book of Invasions,. Although this Book is obviously written by Christian Monks, trying to piece together Oral Traditions and Legends of Ireland with Biblical, there must be some true historical and accountable facts. Academic Historians tend to snigger and relegate the Tuatha Danaan to the Fey Folk, yet the portable Coronation Stone still exists in Scotland today as "Lia Fail", brought to Scone by Kenneth McAlpine of the Dalriada. The Chieftans of the Dalriada were said to have been given the Stone by The High Reigh of Tara.Not all is Myth!?

Really enjoyed your video, learned from it, after 14 years living in Ireland I haven't seen the NEWGRANGE yet, impressive, thank you for sharing!

I like to learn about the history of Ireland. My mother's side of the family is %100 pure blooded Irish and that side of my family came to America in the mid 1800's. On my father's side of the family, his father was Irish and his mother was half Irish and half Sioux Indian and the Sioux Indian part of my blood line is very dominant in me with facial hair not coming in very well and taking years to slowly fill in but never did cover my face like it does on guys who have facial hair and my skin is a little darker than my other family members just like my dad's was. My sister has the Irish side strong in her genes, her skin is very white just like my mom's side and when she gets out in the sunlight she burns and gets red but I just get darker.

I'm from the US and have seen this place it is truly amazing, it lay in ruins for centuries the research and rebuild is a remarkable story. They used to have a lottery for a certain amount people be in the chamber on the morning of the solstice change, the morning sun will shine above the entry header and light the chamber sixty something feet away.

Thank you Mr. Kelly, I love science & History. Your channels offer the best of both. I hope you will always uncover new ways to understand the past. Sincerely, CATG IN CA.USA.

Wow. Thank you for all of the hard work and interesting information!

pete you do a fine job , keep the videos coming mate , videos are done so well , history time is brilliant too .

Interesting that these stone structures and some of the symbols on them like 'whirl' patterns, also show up in the Mediterranean region around the same time like in Sardinia, Mycenean Greece, and even Scandinavia. And of course the oldest are to be found in the Anatolia. I think whats quite evident is we have a people of Near Eastern origin sailing around Europe at this time building monuments to their deities.

I’ve been to Newgrange on my honeymoon and absolutely loved visiting this place.

Loved this video thanks Pete! I had no idea there where so many sites in Ireland or the connection with Anatolia. It links in nicely with what I’ve been learning from Graham Hancock’s books.

I love Irish history and I hope there are more like this to come. I am half Irish from county Clare, our family name is Comyns which relates to the Scottish royal family. Many of our family have O negative blood which is interesting. Hope to get more Irish information, maybe with less adverts please.

Amazing work Pete. All these places are still "alive" in a way, as if those early peoples wanted leave both their spirituality and practical thinking to the posterity, to address us in a way.

Fantastic video. I learned so much from it. It's obviously about recent DNA discovery. It's going to come out at some point in public schools, that human history is way more complicated than we think or theorize. And this video is publicizing that and I think that is exactly what's needed.

Fascinating video!!! I learned so much. And it was beautifully photographed. I've always wondered about Newgrange and other megalithic structures in Europe, but it never occurred to me that it was built by the Neolithic farmers. I guess it's because I had assumed that they had populated Europe in one wave rather than through multiple waves spanning a few thousand years.

I'm south American but my ancestors are Spanish. My sister got a DNA test and from our mother's side our oldest ancestors found were from Neolithic Anatolia. My mother is dark haired, pale skinned, freckled, has striking light blue eyes and resembles a lot certain Irish people.

Wonderful video, thanks. I study early medieval Ireland but only know the basics about this era. And like u say, DNA is changing scholars viewpoints all the time… Anyway, fascinating stuff

Hi Peter, I LOVE your show ! Your voice is perfect. Great history documentaries. So intriguing.

Love your narration, it makes it more interesting. You have that gift.

Egypt did had more widespread incestuous marriages. Roman-era records from Fayoum show that about 20 % of marriages were sibling marriages. This might be connected to women's wider inheritance rights in Egypt, but among the eastern Mediterranean the Greeks and their neighbours had half-sibling marriages among commoners.

I'm not surprised, and yet am struck by how closely what is being revealed matches up, albeit loosely, with Irish origin , so-called mythology, regarding the Tuatha Dé Danann, themselves invaders, and the now invading Milesians...

Anyone can go along to the Newgrange sunrise on and around the 21st Dec, and be in the place of ancient alignment, we’re so lucky

I was hoping to hear the DNA of the hunter gatherer people of Ireland. This was not in the video.

An enjoyable watch. Great filming. Shame so little is known. Thank you.

The connection with Malta is very interesting, they had the same oblong stone carved with swirls in their temple Gigantia

Beautifully filmed and edited. Narrated exquisitely well. Thank you!! Gregg Oreo long beach ca

I grew up in Ireland, and it is a beautiful country. My brothers first wife, and her mother had "problems' with their minds. The Irish themselves would refer to someone as being a bit simple. Or being touched in the head. There was a lot of in-breeding in the past. I remember a beautiful young red headed woman, being looked after by her mother. Who was beside herself with the strain of it all. I remember visiting the west of Ireland (for the first time), and the difference in how people thought, and carried themselves. I have never forgotten the kindness, (that our family) received from this ancient people. I went every year to Achill Island, and stayed at the same guest house. And became part of the family. Thankyou for sharing this with us. Kind regards and greetings from Africa.

This was very interesting and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it, thank you very much 😃👍❣

That deep music like at the end makes me think of "The Keep", and Dr Theodore Cuza with the Talisman. Especially when playing with a shot of the passage at Newgrange :P

“Queen Taea Tephi’sTomb Newgrange & Within it’s walls are a stone inscription that shows the journey undertook to reach Ireland, Queen Tephi left the Holy Land it shows the date line the route & what ships were used & how many took the voyage it even shows them changing ship at Gibraltar, Also close by is the Mound Of The Hostages”:

Very good videos, glad I found your channel.

its amazing what can be found out with dna I found out that chedder man is very closely related to me even after so many generations I share an incredible amount of dna with this man its likely I'm a direct descendant of him as more and more is learned about dna we will be able to understand so much about ourselves and the history of man.

Thank you for the information! 🙂🙏 I think the video was a little drawn out though... longer than what it needed to be. I was hoping to see more images of the inside of the mound. Thank you again!

I built a small stone circle around the burial site of my mother's ashes with a monolith directly over her. Each stone of the circle is accompanied by an oak tree.

4 adverts on an 11 minute mini doc , really annoying!

I'm quite amazed by the range and depth of your work. It's a bit of escapism for me: I've always loved ancient history and am a retired cultural historian, so I love to be astonished by some new discovery from the past. I fear though we may be at the end-point of human evolution. Unfortunately, we don't seem to have quite abandoned our penchant for cutting down trees!

I was at Newgrange and in side the central chamber under the mound in 1985 before they cordoned it off. You could just roam around the whole site in those days.

This was brilliant start to finish. Thankyou

Jeremiah, Tia Tephi, The Tuatha DeDannan (Tribe of Dan), The Lia Fail (Coronation stone of King David) and the Ark of the Covenant.

Unicorns and elves, ancient irish history is quite the mystery to behold. Fills the spirit with wonder and hope, a time of magic and supernatural upliftment in the human soul. Sure hope these relationships are rekindled. I miss my star family, i feel so connected to this culture, and it's literally in my blood. An aching of the heart and soul... before christ faith came to create chaos and dismiss our histories. I long to reclaim my heritage as an American, and not be misled to believe in false narratives regarding my own personal heritage.

Fascinating! Thanks for posting!

Super interesting. The audio quality is also great.

Pete Kelly, I really enjoy your videos.

Aristocratic classes were inbreeding as early as 3200 bce, what a surprise!

During the mesolithic Ireland was so densely forested that a squirrel could have traveled from Cork to Inishowen without touching the ground.

Is there anyway possible to DNA test people who have lived in these areas for generations with those from the burial sites? To see if they are related. It was done once at a site in England and a living person was found to be a descendant of that cave man.

DNA extraction from these times is almost impossible. It's amazing that so much social information can be extracted from bones that have been cremated. An archaeologist explained at a talk I attended that it's impossible to gain insight into our early ancestors due to the nature of burial rituals, cremation destroys DNA.

I used to live in Malahide, it was mandatory every time someone come to Dublin, we take them to Newgrange. Beautiful in sumer ,explendid in winter. From Gold Coast, Australia. SLAINTE.

I was going to say that, to the ancient peoples, the return of the sun was far more important than the longest day. Yes, the site marks both as it was vital for the survival of the community to know just how much time they had to cultivate and harvest food for the winter. Thank you for taking note of this fact. No, I'm not an archeologist but someone who has been very interested in history and just how much of a hold it still has on us today. I value these videos for the information they provide. Thank you for making these films!

Amazing! I love you channel. The way you depict the idea behind the inbreeding behaviour in ancient societies is exactly what you said, an incredible power over the lifes of "entire worlds" (ancient peoples) behind a few people that are actually a family, a dinasty! Apparently anywhere where this happens on earth you will see inbreeding and legendary God kings like these. Amazing! Keep up the great work!

So many adds on your channel Pete. You will make the connection between the pre diluvian people of Ireland and the ancient Egyptians. Take a look at Andrew Power's on line book Ireland Land of The Pharaohs. There is an interview with him on Brehan Law Academy. Love from Ireland 💚💚💚.

Awesome, video. My family history is traced back to those farmers who travel and settle there. Dad being Irish desent and my mom being Celtic decent this ancient history has always fascinated me.

My Dads family from Co Meath 🇨🇮🇬🇧

What a fascinating thing! I wonder what the logical process was between wedge tombs and giant compounds. I'd be interested in more content about the Neolithic farmers

The sculpture of the land and seas were total different then , doggers land joined east england to Europe and parts of Ireland and England were connected. So not to sure about the primitive boats. It was an interesting video , thankyou.

Thank you. I enjoyed that. Being given a glimpse of the Ireland that was was a kick. While I was raised in the US, my DNA suggests my mother was 100% Irish. I didn’t have my father’s DNA to determine whether any of his maternal ancestors included Ireland, though I suspect so, and so I’m left with 100% Ireland/British Isles. However, the DNA results indicate my mother’s maternal line was in Ireland for up to 8,000 years (based on mutations) and it’s likely, that lineage came from an area that was lost to rising sea levels as the glaciers that covered Ireland receded. It’s a rare DNA in Ireland but half of the Sami people and half of the people in the Basque region come from the same line (sans the specifically Irish mutation). My cousins at least are passing along our rare Irish line (I didn’t have kids) to their daughters. Personally, my DNA is rife with homozygous and heterozygous mutations (unmutated genes are not the rule). My people were no doubt well inbred. I find it weird that my mother married someone from the US with so many of the same mutations whose family is most closely associated with England and the Glasgow area of Scotland (his grandparents and some of his uncles immigrated-his father was born in the US). Perhaps they originated in Glasgow and there might be the Irish connection… who knows, maybe one of his maternal ancestors was from the same line as my mother. Wondering about it passes the time. lol I live on the island now and interestingly, though I’d never call myself Irish (because I know better having spent time on the island with relatives over the years-I learned very quickly how American I am despite using most of the slang and some of the sentence structure common to the island), most people I meet who learn that my mother was born and raised here will say, “So you’ve come home,” and home is precisely how Ireland was always referred to in our home when I was growing up. Thank goodness I have close ties with my relatives as it was them who told me “It’s time” to leave America and come home. If I live to be the age my mother, aunt, and grand mother were when they died, I will have reversed my mother’s time on the island as compared to her time in the US. 27 years/ Ireland to 57 years/US for her and hopefully for me 57 years/ US to 27 years/Ireland.

Fantastic video. Ireland has many keys to the past. Truly enjoyed your video. Thanks

Inbreeding causes defects, but it doesn't cause mutations. It just causes the doubling up of harmful mutations, or at least makes doubling up more common.

Loved Ireland and the history ☺️

The Irish curriculum when I was growing up in the 90s just summarized Neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland. It's far more interesting than I thought. Thanks, Pete.

Thanks for posting and sharing. Interesting to hear about the DNA angle.

My DNA results indicate that Irish Kings and my DNA share a common ancestor. Blows my mind. No evidence of incest in my family's genealogy though. And my ethnic roots are eastern European. My common ancestor must have gone back thousands of years. As an archaeologist, I've worked on archaeological sites as old and older than that which gives me an appreciation of the Neolithic age.

Did these people have Rh Negative blood? DNA showed that my ancestors come from Sardinia, which has both megalithic structures and high levels of Rh Negative blood in today’s population. I believe there is a connection between Rh - blood and megalithic structures around the world.