>>2297502Genetic studies (Oppenheimer, Sykes) indicate that almost 90% of Irish people and almost 70% of English people are descended from the same Celto-Iberian settlers who migrated here during the Mesolithic. They're a pre-Indo-European ethnic group.
They're essentially the same people, but they've grown apart through repeated cultural revolutions that are largely forgotten by history.
>muh Anglo-Saxon invasionLook it up. Never happened. There was some small-scale migration to the east. The migrants settled among the indigenous Britons who then adopted the settlers culture. Gradually a divide emerged, largely based on language, religion and culture. The British Church was largely influenced by the Irish Church which was, in turn, influenced by Alexandria and Antioch - it (Celtic Christianity) was more orthodox in nature. The 'Saxon' church, under the influence of Augustine of Canterbury and his followers, was subject to Rome.
One of Augustine's adherents, Bede the Venerable, invented the myth of the Anglo-Saxon invasion and implied that Christianity had been introduced to Briton in this way - he effectively whitewashed the native culture and inferred it was barbaric.
Alfred the Great adopted Bede's version of the 'invasion' for the *Anglo-Saxon Chronicle* and traced his lineage to the invaders - yet his ancestors all had Celtic names.
If you think this is far-fetched
>it's been the academic consensus for close to 40 years (see Cunliffe, Prior et al)>it happens all the time and is happening right nowThe situation in Northern Ireland has similar roots. Consider China and Taiwan. Consider the wholesale adoption of burger culture in western Europe.
