I'm sorry, but this doesn't make sense. I know quite a few Basques and quite few Irish people. The basques are stocky and dark-haired. The irish are red-headed and thinner in build. (Gross generalizations I know, but fairly obvious ones all the same.) It's not about race or genes or whatever anyway its about culture. To whoever said that we all speak English so why do we make such a fuss about our differences- maybe the Scots Irish and Welsh didn't particularly want to speak English, and maybe that's why they are keen on a separate identity.