The Irish are a mixed people with common distant ancestry. The common, fair-haired Irish descend from the ancient invasion of the Tuatha De Danaans, who came from Scythia and before that, from the Biblical Lost tribe of Dan. A later invasion of Ireland was from people called the Milesians, who came via Egypt, and are also from the early Hebrews. They conquered the Tuatha De Danaans. Much later, invasions from the Vikings added genetic material to the fair haired Irish. Thes Vikings descended from the Lost Tribes via the Parthian Empie, led by Odin into Scandanavia, and then later into Ireland.
The ‘Black Irish’ are the Milesians, and unlike their fair-haired neighbors, often have very dark hair and carry a tan when exposed to the sun. But the Danaans, the Milesians and the Vikings have common ancestry as descendants of Abraham.
For more information, do a Google Internet Search of these three peoples.
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In Britain, the “British Israelites” are a quaint bunch of loonies. In America, they are (quite literally) neo-Nazis. Either way, their beliefs are nonsense, backed by no evidence at all, and with plenty of evidence against them.
I expect there are no “lost tribes of Israel” outside SW Asia & E Africa.
By the time any group had a completely different name, had adopted an Aryan dialect, & lost any sense of themselves as Hebrews, they’d probably long since been well-interbred with non-Hebrew stock & no longer strictly identifiable with any Hebrew group.
I’m wondering if Bud is going to come back. It strikes me as improbable (fine, impossible) that 3 branches of the lost tribes wind up via separate routes in a li’l island off off Europe. Unless everybody is a lost tribe.
I am looking forward to telling Ms. Attack that she’s jewish. It would explain a lot (notably her aversion to mixed fibers)
