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Subject: Re: [DNA] Galloway-NW Irish
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:40:09 EDT
In a message dated 10/1/2006 4:44:32 P.M. Central Standard Time,
writes:
John, yes, if you mean his online article on Dunadd: An early Dalriadic
capital. Campbell's book influenced Alistair Moffat's thinking, and here I
quote
a paragraph from his book Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before
History:
What I was referring to was an article by Campbell entitled "Were the Scots
Irish?"
EWAN CAMPBELL*
The author attributes the claimed migrations of the Irish into Argyll to a
set of elite origin myths, finding no support in archaeological evidence. He
goes on to ask how the Iron Age
populations of Argyll established and changed their personal and group
identity. Key-words: origin myths, migration, Scots, Irish, Argyll.
But it's probably the same material which also appears in his book.
'Dunadd: An Early Dalriadic Capital', Oxbow, 2001
Alan Lane & Ewan Campbell
One of the reasons I found this theory interesting is O'Rahilly's linking
the Irish Dal Riata to the Ulaidh of Ulster and the Erainn or Belgae of
southern Ireland. Some on this list have tried to find a DNA connection between
Irish septs said to be Erainn (O'Driscoll, O'Shea) or Ulaidh (MacDonslevy,
etc.). So far any such connections have been elusive. As far as O'Rahilly goes
- he's right - at least in that all these groups are linked in Irish
pedigrees. But I doubt the label "Erainn" or "Belgae" means much in terms of DNA.
It might mean nothing more than tribes that were pre-Milesian in origin.
But with the term pre-Milesian we bump into the Ui Neill (Milesians) or NW
Irish and I hardly need remind anyone of O'Rahilly's theories on this.
Until this dispute is settled one way or the other I don't think anything
definitive can be said about the NW Irish in Scotland or elsewhere outside of
Ireland.
John
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