Interesting email from an Irish fellow about Irish kilts.

[gilmore]

There is the idea that Celtic culture migrated to Britain rather than Celtic people.

That is now indisputible.

DNA shows that the majority of the inhabitants of the UK and Ireland descend from people who lived in the Iberan peninsula during the last Ice Age, and migrated north up the Atlantic coast as the ice retreated.

Take a look at the first two maps here http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mcdonald/Wo...groupsMaps.pdf showing the distribution of the Y DNA R1b Haplogroup in 1500 AD, just before the time of European imperialism.

It was for the most part the same group of people who were formerly thought to be pre-Celtic, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, etc., and were merely changing their language, technology and culture, rather than successive waves of people of different ethnicities invading and conquering the British Isles.