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I'm Irish and I love Spain.

I have been living in Spain for 7 years. I love Spain.

Spain ❤ Ireland

I myself am “black Irish”! My father explained it to me and it makes a lot of sense. I’m definitely Irish, but I have that dark skin tone, dark eyes and Hair. It’s fascinating to me that I’m considered black Irish and I’m very proud of being Irish, Spanish, and Dutch.

my grandfather from my mothers side was irish from spain. i was always confused by the connection so i am very thankful for these videos!

Irish and Britons came from northern Spain originally.

I am of Spanish descent and a accent of the Asencio name. My heritage goes back as far as the Basque in Northern Spain or the Pyrenees. Watching these videos helps me in answering the question of why there are so many Hispanics through out the world called Edwin (ead). Edwin is not a Spanish name and it's pronounced differently in the spanish language(ehween). Strange how this tradition still exist today. ~Edwin

i've been to celtic spain! its so beautiful- in the spanish state called Galicia, u can still see the ancient Celtic ruins all around!!!!! these ppl in this state dont even speak castilian- well, they do, but their native language is Gallego!!!!! its amazing!

Thank you for uploading these videos. I am Galician and this is very interesting for me. The Romans gave the name Gallaecia to the northwest part of the Iberian peninsula after the Gallaeci (Greek Kallaikoi) tribe (or Gallaecians).

Greetings from Valencia whose natives were iberians.I find your esplanation of our special relationship very fascinating.I learnt english in Ireland and keep very fond memories of that time.I was a teenager.

The majority of Iberia was inhabited by celtic tribes not just the North.. Native Iberian inhabited the East Coast. It took the Romans 200 years even after the Fall of Hannibal and Carthage to conquer and Romanize the majority of tribes in Iberia but we never hear about that, it's always Rome vs Gaul, Britannia, Germania.

Gracias por las muestras de agradecimiento a la armada española. Viva Irlanda.Madrid.

Galicia, Asturias and Cantabria have the same kind of culture, buildings and many traditions similar of Ireland and Scotland

Ireland and Spain forever united

thank you for these videos. Like you said...i'm one of those people who always knew about a special relationship between spain and ireland...but couldn't really explain why (in detail). Thanks again!

We all know that the Celts of Spain, Ireland and peopled part of what is now England. The DNA gene itself R1b majority in Spain and Ireland and England confirmed. Celtic traditions in the north and part of Spain still remain today. Northern Spain was never really Romanized.

The Celts of Spain, Asturian, Galician, inhabited and colonized Ireland and moved to Scotland, the pure Celtic comes from Spain

This guy is so good, he should have thousands of subscribers. I am just glad his videos are still up. I hope he is doing well, he must be getting up there in age.

As an Englishman of Spanish ( North West Spain and the Basque country) and Irish descent ( Central and Northern Ireland), and raised by an Irish Catholic mother, I can relate to this. PS Moors. The Berber tribe who lived in what is now Morroco and Algeria were known by the Romans as the Mauri, and the land as Mauritania. This gave us the English word Moor.

I love ireland, some of the best people in the world, and being basque i can see we share same blood. Love from Spain, god bless you

My grand mothers grand dad was a merchernt and fisher men from a place called huelva in southern spain , we where always told stories of spain and having spanish as much as irish if not more and we came from ireland

I am spanish patriot and i love Ireland. Spain and Ireland = celtic blood BROTHER NATION! CATOLIC AND CELTIC FREE IRELAND!!!

Very very interesting ! Wow ! No wonder the Irish act very similar to the Spanish....!!

I believe a percentage of the Irish walked there from The mainland and those people walked there across the north sea plain and Doggerland to get to what we now know as the British Isles today,This would have taken place between 15k and 5k years ago,as the sea levels rose these people got trapped on the Islands,but this is just a small part of the story,Spain has always been there and is very relevant as it has been an ice age refuge at different times for people migrating from northern Europe.

@gespb32 There is an interesting article about that, and also the similarities of cattle and another animals between the north of Spain (Asturias specifically) and Ireland & UK

historic tip a roman historian wrote: an asturian (north hispannic celtic region) cavalry wing was sent as mercs for the romans in the labor of conquering the islands, and the origin of britsh ponneys,( as there never was horses in britain) is told to come from this mountain little horses called asturcon

My mother's side is Irish and Italian, so no surprise there. But when I did the DNA test, even though I take those tests with a grain of salt, I was surprised to see that we have a lot of Basque ancestry. This was surprising because my paternal grandparents were born and raised in Tarragona in Cataluna. I have no clue where the Basque side comes from on my dad's side.

Port-u-gaul, gailicia, galilee, galatians, briton, brittany, tuatha de dan-ann, scan-dan-navia, dane-mark, gaul, all these people have a common ancestor as sea fairing peoples who travelled the entire coastlines of the Mediteranian sea (which means sea between lands) & the Atlantic coast of Europe as well as the North sea. It was the original civilization of Europe, North Africa & the Middle east around 3000 years ago until it was almost erased from history by invaders from the North & East.

Nice to see somebody say what needed to be said on the "Scots-Irish" revisionist nonsense.

For a long time I´ve known of the links between ancient Irish and Spanish populations. The Irish kings were descendants from Breogan, the father of Miles, King of what is now Galicia, builder of the great tower in A Coruña from where tradition says Ireland could be seen on clear sunny days and from which Milesians parted to colonize Ireland.

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Irish people came from Northern Spain that's why Irish people sometimes might get confused for looking Italian cause Italians and Spanish are similar

There is a multitude of Hallstatt-period Celtic metalwork pieces, but relatively little La Tene type work in Spain. Perhaps the Celts were already established in Spain before La Tene style began to develop elsewhere in circa 500 B.C. Cunliffe also suggests that Celtic spoken in Spain was more ancient than Celtic Gaulish once spoken in present-day France.

I'm Irish but have black and brown eyes with very dark features in fact people ask quite often if I am even Irish. I am from Dublin so I understand it was heavily mixed with invasions Vikings Normans so on but it is taken as fact that we are Celts but I don't believe we are. I'm very interested in the history behind my appearance as I am not the sterotypical look of an Irishman you know the red hair and all that. I heard somewhere that a vast amount of the first Irish came from the Basque the black Irish so to speak I heard it was a myth but it could explain the black hair and dark features but. I'm fascinated by that stuff anybody with any sort of information or knowledge would be greatly appreciated. Just love that type of stuff. I think alot of Irish history is undiscovered.

Impressive, WOW. Pretty solid.

The research of John T Koch and the Tartessian link is interesting. But true that not everyone supports his theories. Koch has just been awarded a grant to carry out further research.

I aways wonder why my dad and grandpa was so dark to be irish now I know. thanks

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I find this interesting. My father's side of the family are from Northern Spain. Basque.

The Irish Gaelic summer schools usually have a good mixture of students from various parts of Europe.

My last is Spain and my grandfather Spain was Irish trying to make the connection!

My grand mother was from county mayo her grand dad was from spain also one of her grandmothers had spanish roots going back further showed up in my dna we all look spanish _hispanic in my family so gaelifed their surnames some kinda keep spanish last names like castello galaga gallerher etc , my gran also said we have gypsy roots from the south of spain and that we where from Egypt before that we thought she was sinial with some of her stories but it all turns out with dna

There is a theory, researchers arent sure yet when the Iberian celts settled there, because they had found celtic tools and celtic artifacts that is not found elsewhere in the rest of Europe and also the celtic language in Spain..

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The Irish came from a Spanish Gael named Mil Espaine.

the links between ireland & the iberian peninsula go back even further than the “celts”:- - 10000BCE the Mesolithic peoples came to Ireland from the Iberian Peninsula - 4500BCE the Neolithic peoples came to Ireland from the East Mediterranean & via the Iberian peninsula - 500BCE late Bronze Age “Hallstatt” “Celts” come to Ireland from Central Europe, via Western Gaul & the North West Iberian peninsula. The Portuguese language has many links with Irish:- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bcl-dNGDuMzJd4U.html

My understanding is that the latest research into the DNA of the people of Ireland shows that 80% of Irish people descend from the first Neolithic and Mesolithic settlers. The people of North West Spain have the same origins so it looks like that they hugged the French coast and arrived in Ireland by boat. The 'Celtic' migration into Ireland in the Iron Age was a Cultural Migration not an actual one involving Celtic warriors etc. There is no evidence in the archaeological record of any invasion of Ireland during the Iron Age. The term 'Celt' is dodgy and pretty vague. It was first used by the Greeks who called every Barbarian North of them 'Keltoi'. We are 'Celtic' only in our language, music, dance etc.

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Hello, I am spanish, the irish people is my familily igually that peopple if Spain. Is a honor for me the relations of two nations A true honor

Celts in Spain were mainly established in Central Spain, not Northern Spain. They actually mixed with Iberians later on to form Celtiberian tribes. Please have your facts right.

Do you know Míl Espáine? he is the father of all irish. . Congrats Irish you all are spanish... lol

in fact galiza or galicia is a primatetive version of old Irish or gealge which later became scotts gealic so forth so if any thing the scottish are from Ireland

Hello, very interesting topic, I have been told that my mother’s mother was from Spain - and - her father side were Irish descendants ( in Basque Country) his last name was BAXES - I did a DNA test - Spain 52% France 22% Ireland & Scotland 9% Portugal 11% + others 1% I have never been able to find the name BAXES anywhere - I was born in Havana, Cuba now in USA for 60 years. Can you maybe find the origin of the name? Thank you ☘️

more site concerning this kind of topics of Spanish Celts and Iberians.. The Iberian Peninsula... and the people..

theres also the word hibernia which is the name for ireland

the Greeks gave that name to was is now Spain and Portugal....

And, also our race, the spanish race so the irish race was born in Spain, DNA haplogroup R1b before paleolithic times, hundreds thousands years ago, our clans crossed northwards the Pyreennies to first inhabitate the rest of Europe after the ice ages, spanish are the parents of most westeners, those spanish first inhabitated Ireland, Scotland, even England....(check genetist professor Sykes from Oxford).

also if you look at Irish dancnig as just one of many differnces between so called scotland you will see they're noting a like in fact irish dancnig is very clearly simler to spanish culture

@gespb32 That was my point

They say that the Basque got to America possibly 200 yrs or more before Columbus 🙋🏼‍♀️

Con,t was from the blood lines of the Spanish Armada that Drake routed n chased round Britain where the armada tried to regroup but crashed in Ireland. I've heard that a large portion of the armadas marines, elite troops with a height restriction of 6ft settled there and the origins part of which is mine of the Black Irish were established. Can anyone in the know elaborate please

Irish college in Santiago of Compostela: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ht9ya7yexq2wlac.html

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also you back than you could walk from gaints causeway to scotland and im talking about the celts or Gaels who came later

@BritLes9 i have heard about the black irish and also that the Galic speaking people in Spain are Irish? which is what i guess what some of this video is about with the Galic speaking people.

ireland in gaelic...IBERNIA........spain is IBERIA

After linguistics and archeology, the third category of evidence comes fromgenetics itself. It had first been hypothetised that R1b was native to Western Europe, because this is where it was most prevalent. It has since been proven that R1b haplotypes displayed higher microsatellite diversity in Anatolia and in the Caucasus than in Europe. European subclades are also more recent than Middle Eastern or Central Asian ones. The main European subclade, R-P312/S116, only dates back to approximately 3500 to 3000 BCE. It does not mean that the oldest common ancestor of this lineage arrived in Western Europe during this period, but that the first person who carried the mutation R-P312/S116 lived at least 5,000 years ago, assumably somewhere in the lower Danube valley or around the Black Sea. In any case this timeframe is far too recent for a Paleolithic origin or a Neolithic arrival of R1b. The discovery of what was thought to be "European lineages" in Central Asia, Pakistan and India hit the final nail on the coffin of a Paleolithic origin of R1b in Western Europe, and confirmed the Indo-European link. All the elements concur in favour of a large scale migration of Indo-European speakers (possibly riding on horses) to Western Europe between 2500 to 2100 BCE, contributing to the replacement of the Neolithic or Chalcolithic lifestyle by a inherently new Bronze Age culture, with simpler pottery, less farming, more herding, new rituals (single graves) and new values (patrilinear society, warrior heroes) that did not evolve from local predecessors.

Scots-Irish refers to the descendants of N Ireland and the Dal Riata peoples who then settled SW Scotland. They have done gene mapping and the people's of the aforementioned places are similar to one another while different from S Ireland and NE Scotland. So, Scots-Irish is a real term referring to a distinct and particular and living people. That term is misused.

Just gonna assume that's not coffee in his cup.

I am irish/spainish decent As a result of Spanish armada crashing into Ireland

wtf the link you gave me is not real it's a link to a spanish commite page

it is interesting but he said that there were celts in souther Spain. There were Celts in southern Spain.... look it up, Celtiberians

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i know right im from Ireland but i have dark hair and sheet white skin most people in Ireland have spanish dna

also the scottish came from northern ireland which is why they speak Gaelic google ogham stones the only stones have been found in Ireland and the part thats near ireland in scotland so the culture could not have pop out of thin air in scotland put 2 and 2 together it's not hard to figar it out it's most likely that they came from northern ireland

well im not sure about scottland but Ireland and spain do

iv'e reasherch this a lot man i know im right

I disagree on a few points here. Hispania is what the Romans (and the world) called Spain way before 1492. I suggest you read the Concilia Toletana in Latin ~ 400 A.D. the Spanish agree! Lusitania was a Western Province on Iberia, it means Celtic tribe of Lusus. Galicia is obviously Celtic. Basques are non-Celtic in origin perhaps. Finally, Eire was very Catholic way before Protestantism, read lives of Saints, Canons of Councils, and Annals. Cf. the strict censures of the Irish Church! Santiago!

I am descendant from the first Galacian King of Ireland. The first Galacian King of Ireland was the son of Milesius.

ya thats what i said we Irish our Gaels though a branch of celt

@renwuying777 Wha? Vikings took Gael women and Gaels took Viking women for marriage. In Brian Boru's army/navy there were Viking mercenaries that fought on his side, and the Viking chieftain of the Brit Isles had Gael mercs fighting on his side. It wasn't anything like the Saxon invasion where lines where very distinctly drawn. The Oxford study shows the Irish, Highland Scots, Welsh, and Cornish have all the same exact y-chromosonal link to the Basque. What's that mean? Its a work in progress.

IRELAND typo

correcto........sabes de lo que hablas los gallegos somos un pueblo celta que conservamos costumbres celtas ancestrales

I am English, my fathers side is English back to his great grandfather. From then back the family line is from donegal/wexford. My mum is from Dublin n me n this side have dark skin more so the family still in Dublin. They say my great great grand. Con,t

CARROWMORE 600 BC the oldest tomb in western EUROPE

Galicia,Asturias y Cantabria....

600 hundred bc oldest tomb in western Europe [ Ireland]

and later there might have been some other culture that came from france and other places

lol did you goolge it or are you getting anger because you know im right cooook

The papists f'd around and found out.

Carrowmore 600 BC cook

wwooaaaaa. Ok. Regardless of what's in the video, the comments below baffled me. First of all, Moors are not arabs, moors are african. Secondly, the term spaniard makes no sense whatsoever, cause Spanish people are a mix of Celtic, Germanic and Moorish, exactly like the French! We have a very bad tendency to define the ethnicity based on political borders, which is a total mistake. Thirdly, skin tone has never, ever EVER mattered on a continental level. Spanish people are white, they are european, period. If skin tones differ from a region to another is because of the amount of sun. You can have in the same family one who has brow eyes black hair, another with blue eyes and blond hair, another with ginger hair and brown eyes another with green eyes and black hair etc, that, in every single country in Europe. Scandinavians are not all blond, Spanish are not all tan with black hair, French are not all chartain with blue eyes, Scots are not all ginger. We have to stop categorising everything, it's reminiscent of the late 19th century eugenics. A person doesn't have black hair or brown eyes cause he or she has genetic link to africans or southern europeans or whatever. If u wonder why some irish people have blue eyes and others have brown eyes it's called genetic randomness. Again, within same family u can have the whole spectrum. Ethnicity doesn't rely on skin tone, u can brown eyes/black haired scots and irish and u have blond/blue eyes spanish. Spanish, French, Scots and Irish are Celts. It is also proven by DNA and ancient texts that irish people are descendents of Spanish Celts and I personally think it's beautiful. People tend to overlook history or take it for granted, I think it's a terrible mistake cause it there's one thing that has defined Europe throughout the centuries it is its contant flux of migrations. Which in my opinion makes European countries incredibly close to one another.

you no man it's kind of sad you trying to invite some sort of fairy tale to make your country important and im quite flatered that you like our culture so much you want it for your selfs really makes me proud to be Irish ta me o' Eireinn :D

yes it is get use to it the truth has come out

the first people to go to ireland was around 10'000 BCE at that piont they could not speak any language nor could they write so it makes sense that the language and culture would not come till later when the celts came then on to scotland via northern ireland these are facts and id like to see any one try and disprove them

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and you still hav'int answered any of my questions like why do you even care where the Irish people come from when it's clear they come from spain then later france and so forth

and i said new grange was the oldest bulding in Ireland stone henge is not a building

600 hundred bc oldest tomb in western europe Ireland carrowmore