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Gulliver | Spanish Influence in West Ireland (107* d) | RE: Spanish Influence in West Ireland | 08 Mar 09 |
Last year some dna tests were done on people from the west of Ireland who were dark-skinned, as part of a TV documentary. The results showed that their ancestors could not have come to Ireland in the last few centuries. But the documentary did show that the Irish could trace their ancestry back to what is now the Basque region of Spain, from where they gradually migrated along the Atlantic coastline to Ireland about nine thousand years ago. Don |