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Does every English person who has English blood in them have Irish blood in them from many centuarys back?

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All English people must have Irish in them as England is near Ireland. This Irish ancestory must have been part the English for some at least for the last 1000 years. Everyone English person must have got Iirsh form their acestory roots from somewhere. I sthis true, any internet evidence exists now on my statement?

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  1. No, you won't find any such "evidence" on the internet.

    There are no pure races or nationalities. In England they originally had a Celtic people, later the Romans came and their soldiers were from all over the known world at the time. After that they were invaded by Germanic Anglo, Saxons and Jutes. Then the Danes invaded. Then the French speaking Normans controlled England for several centuries.  About 100 years later some of those Normans(called Anglo Normans) invaded Ireland and brought it under English control.  

    The Anglo Normans were forbidded to adopt Irish customs, speak the Irish language or intermarry.  However, they still did and as the old saying goes, "they became more Irish than the Irish themselves."   Later settlements of Scots and English in Northern Ireland did not bring about as much assimilation due to religious differences.  

    In later centuries, many Irish crossed over to England to find work.  Actually, a lot of the Irish that came to the U.S. came here from Liverpool.  

    How much intermarrying they did with the native English.  Who knows.  

    We are not specifically related to each other by "blood,' but by our genes and our DNA.  Blood has DNA but so does our skin, our hair, our saliva, our bones.  When they do DNA testing they usually don't use blood.


  2. DNA evidence seems to prove that the population has remained very stable from stone age times.  The Celts, and Saxons were just aristicracies like the Normans.

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