Are You Gael, Viking, Norman or Planter? The Four Bloods of Ireland

Brought to you by Selkie. The Irish way, in a dropper. IRISH20 for 20% off at selkiecare.com Ireland is not one people. It is four, laid down over a thousand years, and every one of them left a set of surnames behind. The Gaels who fixed their family names before almost anyone in Europe. The Vikings who founded Dublin in 841 and left names like Doyle, Higgins and McAuliffe. The Normans who landed at Bannow Bay in 1169, built the castles, and went so Irish the Crown passed 35 laws against it in 1366. And the Scottish and English Planters settled in Ulster from 1609, whose names still sit in the same corner of the island. In 2017 the Irish DNA Atlas showed those layers are still in the blood: ten genetic clusters, a Viking signal second only to Orkney, and a genetic line across Ulster that marks the Plantation four centuries on. At the end, you check your own surname against all four. Chapters 0:00 More Viking blood than anywhere but Orkney 1:18 The Gaels: the oldest surnames in Europe 3:10 The Vikings: Dublin, 841, and the Dane's grandson 5:01 The Normans: Bannow Bay, 1169 6:12 More Irish than the Irish themselves 7:18 The Planters: Ulster, 1609 9:19 The 2017 Irish DNA Atlas 11:16 Which one are you? Check your surname 12:26 5 million in Ireland, 31.5 million in America Enjoyed this one? The rest of the channel is here:    / @thewayofireland   Sources Gilbert et al., "The Irish DNA Atlas," Scientific Reports, December 2017 John Grenham, "Irish Roots," The Irish Times (Viking surnames) Statutes of Kilkenny, 1366 Ulster Historical Foundation, "The Plantation of Ulster" Central Statistics Office, 2020 births and 2022 census US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2021 This is The Way of Ireland. How the Irish actually lived, and what it left in you.