What it means to be Irish...

In a talk by Dr Edmund Gilbert, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, titled 'The Irish DNA Atlas: providing a map of Irish genetics in and out of Ireland', he presented the Irish genetic pre-history. In neolithic period, DNA evidence shows that the settlers arrived from the Middle East. In the bronze era, the DNA brought new ancestry that was predominantly of settlers from the Eurasian Steppes, and that ancestry forms the basis of modern Irish genetic makeup.

I asked the following questions:

I believe you said that the DNA of the modern Irish genome originated in Eastern Europe -- the Eurasian Steppes. Is that the area that would now be Ukraine?

Would you now be looking at the shared features of the current Ukrainian migrant population and the ancient Irish DNA?

But they didn't answer questions being asked online. Very interesting. 

IMIRCE: MIGRATION & IRELAND THROUGH TIME

Presented by the National Monuments Service of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and organised by Archaeology Ireland

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Date and time

Sat, 7 Oct 2023 08:30 - 16:45 IST

Location

The Printworks Event and Exhibition Centre

Dublin Castle Dame Street 2 Dublin 2

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• 8 hours 15 minutes

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Imirce: migration and Ireland through time

From the voyages of the first Mesolithic colonisers to the present day, the island of Ireland has seen many new arrivals coming for many different reasons. Archaeology can provide unique insights into how these people adapted to their new surroundings. Imirce: migration and Ireland through time will investigate how identities were negotiated within these new contexts.

Imirce—migration, the overall theme of this programme—looks at the evidence for arrival in Ireland, alongside examples of Irish arrivals elsewhere, as a means of exploring and revealing the multiplicity of identities that have contributed—and continue to contribute—to Irish society through time. This evidence ranges from the growing body of ancient DNA evidence that is beginning to answer some lingering questions about Irish prehistoric populations to the legacy of new or introduced artefact, burial or settlement types that give us some insight into the lives of these new arrivals. Equally, such evidence has an important role in telling us about Ireland’s connections with the wider world. During the ages of exploration, colonisation and transplantations, ships crossed oceans to trade, raid or transport. Irish people were on board. The emigrations of the nineteenth century following the devastation of the Famine witnessed a population shift from Ireland to distant lands, where broader connections were forged and where the Irish diaspora expressed their identities in different contexts and emerging new communities.

07 October 2023, The Printworks, Dublin Castle