Is there Spanish blood in the Irish?
Irish Blood Mayo (Ireland) and have links to Donegal, there is definite Spanish blood in my genelogical links.
Are Irish and Spaniards related?
The historic links between Spain and Ireland are intellectual, economic, political, religious and especially military. However there are no racial or genetic links. The Gaelic Irish we can categorically state do not have Spanish origins.
Where do Portuguese people descend from?
The Portuguese are a Southwestern European population, with origins predominantly from Southern and Western Europe. The earliest modern humans inhabiting Portugal are believed to have been Paleolithic peoples that may have arrived in the Iberian Peninsula as early as 35,000 to 40,000 years ago.
Are the Y chromosome haplotypes of the Portuguese and Irish similar?
To support this, recent genetic research has revealed that there are strong similarities between the Y chromosome haplotypes from males of North-Western Portugal and Spain, with the Irish men with Gaelic surnames (1). Many, many years later, the paths of the Portuguese and Irish continued to intertwine.
Are black Irish of Spanish or Portuguese ancestry?
Some “Black Irish” are of Irish-African descent, tracing their ancestry back to the slave trade. Many of these people live on Barbados and Montserrat. Some readers, writing below, with typical Black Irish coloring have had genetic testing done to confirm that they have Spanish, Portuguese, and Canary Island heritage.
Why are Portuguese people so genetically diverse?
Portuguese people have more genetic diversity than some of their neighbors. They carry “all the most important European haplogroups, including those that expanded through Europe in the Palaeolithic, and those whose expansion has occurred during the Neolithic.”
Do the Irish and the Spanish have the same DNA?
The Irish also more DNA from the Vikings and English (Germanic peoples). So even-though the Spanish and the Irish look a little different, their DNA shows a clear racial affinity on the male side — R1b in both countries are very high (70–85\%).