NYT: English, Irish, Scots: They’re All One, Genes Suggest

[flairball]

I think this is an attempt to make the English not feel so bad about the Irish putting a hurting on them in the rugby six nations last weekend.

[AnimalK]

All this talk about Saxon violence...

[Beertigger]

I happen to be Scots, Welsh, Dutch, German, Polish, Austrian, Danish, French, Native American, Jewish, Rom, and Irish. (And I no doubt missed something in that list) It's the Irish I identify with.

I don't know that there's any political motivation behind academics' quarreling about the origins of the Gaels vs. the Saxons. Academics like to quarrel. They don't need any particular reason.