All Discussions Tagged 'Maeve' - The Wild Geese2024-03-29T14:13:21Zhttps://thewildgeese.irish/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Maeve&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAncestors!tag:thewildgeese.irish,2013-10-16:6442157:Topic:570422013-10-16T08:48:42.983ZTom O Connorhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/TomOConnor
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122482719?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122482719?profile=original" width="275"></img></a> A team of geneticists at Trinity College Dublin led by Professor Dan Bradley have discovered that “as many as 3 million men worldwide may be <a href="http://www.irishcentral.com/news-topic/Irish-Ancestry.html">descendants of the Irish</a> warlord, who was the Irish “High King” at Tara, the ancient center of Ireland from A.D. 379 to A.D. 405.” Millions of…</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122482719?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122482719?profile=original" width="275" class="align-left"/></a>A team of geneticists at Trinity College Dublin led by Professor Dan Bradley have discovered that “as many as 3 million men worldwide may be <a href="http://www.irishcentral.com/news-topic/Irish-Ancestry.html">descendants of the Irish</a> warlord, who was the Irish “High King” at Tara, the ancient center of Ireland from A.D. 379 to A.D. 405.” Millions of <a href="http://www.irishcentral.com/news-topic/Irish-American.html">Irish Americans</a> may be directly descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, the most prolific warrior in Irish history. His dynasty lasted for centuries, continuing up until the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland at the end of the 16th century.</p>
<p>On a raid in Wales, Niall of the Nine Hostages captured a young slave and brought him to Ireland. That slave would later escape, and go on to become Ireland’s patron saint, St. Patrick.</p>
<p>King Niall was responsible for the very common <a href="http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Top-100-Irish-last-names-explained-103125099.html">Irish surname “O Neill”</a> (“Ui Neill” in Gaelic) – which literally means ‘descendant son of Niall' – also the name of Irish pubs all over the world.) The researchers also found that as many as one in 12 men in Ireland have the same DNA as the Irish king – and in Ireland’s Northwest, that figure rises to one in five.</p>
<p>Bradley told the London Independent. “Before this, everything was mythology, but now there does seem to have been a single male ancestor of this group of powerful dynasties." Are you sure you are not in some way descended from this powerful Irish King? Does your ancestry not go all the way back to one of Niall’s own ancestors, Ireland’s Queen Maeve? Check it out. Check out Niall of the Nine Hostages and Queen Maeve in your local Library or on the Internet.</p>
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