Irish people are originally from Spain?

Question

Im reading a book about the history of Ireland. It states that around the year 500BC north spaniards Galician Celts came to Ireland and settled there. Also in the north of Spain, the bagpipe is the national instrument. Just wondering if anyone else has some info about this. I have to do an essay. thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, I have read this before. The Irish and Spain connection. there is a good video on youtube that talks about this. Search for "Spain and Ireland Part 1 of 10" on youtube.

The Irish people, for the most part ....are basically originally from northwestern Spain. Also, we are talking about the Gali or Galicians, this group of people have been in the northwestern part of Spain since 3000BC, before the Romans even existed. Spain is very very old.

Intense Teen, your are right, but almost of the celts that arrived to ireland were from  northwestern Spain.

If you go to Galicia, the Basque country or Astuiras you will be amazed at the similarities of the Irish people. Musically, customs, etc. Of course other groups of people also settled in what is now Ireland from other parts of Europe, but Galician Celts were the majority.

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Who gave me thumbs down??? Please who ever it was show me historically that Im wrong.

Intense Teen, Galicians are Celts.

Answer 2

the basque language of northern spain is very similar to gaelic

Answer 3

Oh, that's interesting. I knew there was a connection between Spain and Ireland but I didn't know it was more specifically with Galicians. I'm of Galician descent but I'm from central Mexico hehe My family has a lot of green eyed red heads, but thats probably just a coincidence.

Answer 4

There is very little archaeological  evidence of ANY large scale invasion of 'celtic' peoples into Ireland around 5ooBC.

  However Irish DNA does have a definite affinity to Spain, reaching back to after the Ice Age. The first people to arrive came from the Basque region, and the Basques are still our closest genetic cousins in Europe. Later, neolithic farmers arrived from the near east-they were probably the megalith builders who made such structures as newgrange. Of course the original people did not vanish, they too became farmers and mingled with the newcomers.

  Specialist think the celtic languages may have arrived with the agriculturalists. A lot of archaeologists prefer the term 'Atlantic celts' for the people of Ireland and the British isles, to differentiate them from the mid-European celts of hallstatt etc, who are NOT their ancestors.

Black Irish just refers to a darker phenotype often seen in the West of Ireland, it can be dark/black hair,olive skin & brown eyes, or very dark hair, bright blue eyes and very pale skin. It may well hark back to the original immigrations of the neolithic and earlier as those people were of a 'Mediterranean' type judging by their bones.

Answer 5

I'm Irish and yeah you're right but that aint the whole of it: first people to come to Ireland were from India, then Turkish, then Spanish, then Dutch then Greek but what you gotta remember is that the races, languages and cultures hadn't all been developed at this point and that all these people were CELTS, not Espanic or Greco etc and that at one time all of Europe was populated by Celts, also all people moved around everywhere in the beginning  of humanity it's not just Irish. So no we're not Spanish or Espanic we are Celts  

Answer 6

Irish,Spanish, they both end in ish lol

Answer 7

Bagpipes are Scottish aren't they?

Anyway, I think the term "Black-Irish", comes from Spaniard sailors that sought refuge in Ireland during the Spanish and English War.

Point taken Yikes.