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Subject: Re: [DNA] Colla vs. Dalriata
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:35:17 EST
In a message dated 1/17/2006 10:55:01 A.M. Central Standard Time,
writes:
I apologise for thinking that your argument ended with your first paragraph.
Your piece was far more thoughtful;however, the chief line for the Maguire
does test "Colla". When I first created the hypothesis in early reports to
Clan participants in 2003 and 2004, one of the first cross checks for the
theory was with Maguire data.
I'm not questioning your analysis of the DNA. Just the division between
Airgialla and Dal Riata. One problem though. The McMahon group in Ireland
reports no connection in DNA with the Maguires. This is odd since both groups
are claimed to be Airgialla in descent from one of the three Collas. Most
of the Airgialla in Ireland are said to descend from either Colla Uais or
Colla da crioch. The third "brother," Colla Mend, had few descendants or none at
all, according to different sources.
This whole "brother' business is most likely a genealogical fiction; at
best its improvable. Nial 'of the Nine Hostages' is the first figure in the
pedigrees most historians believe is truly historical (c. 405 AD). Since the
line of the three Collas ties into his pedigree three or four generations
before that it's probably unreliable as "history." At the very least such
genealogical claims should be treated with suspicion if not outright skepticism.
If O Rahilly is right then the various tribes of the Airgialla might not be
related at all.
John
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