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» blckirish - black irish ?

You can see my other posts a year ago under the name blckirish.

In this post -

-the difference between celts and picts
-eskimo-irish relation theory
-native americans hiding as "black irish"

My theory is that the Picts, who were on Ireland before the Celts, are a branch of the mongoloid race, akin to eskimos. There was a book "the brendan voyage" written in the 70s or 80s that chronicled a recreation of the brendan voyage, where Irish monks made a skin boat and sailed to Iceland before 1000 AD. We only know about it because their manuscripts survive. Remember, the druids before them didn't write anything down in case it fell into unworthy hands. The Vikings also made it to Iceland Greenland and North America. The fact that the Irish traditionally had skin boats, there was this definite ability to travel to eskimo lands and no one knows what language the picts spoke, I would say that the original Irish the Picts were an eskimo type people. There are distinctive "shovel shaped incisors" that only people of asian, eskimo, inuit or native american people have, I'm going to have my sister an orthdontic assistant look at our teeth. Unless there's some eskimo or Asian somewhere in my family which is incredibly unlikely as my family went from Roscommon, New York, Montana, and then Washington state then my family is some old throwback to this original Irish. My grandmother looked asian or eskimo and she was born in Montana. Her dad, 100% Irish, was only 5'4".
The picts probably got to Ireland in the last ice ages and were "marooned " there when the ice receded as one of the southernmost of the eskimo/inuit branch. This could explain the diabetes (a hunting people now living on starches) and alcoholism so common in my family history as well as many Irish (if black irish do have the genes of a inuit type people, we may lack the enzyme for processing alcohol just like native americans). It would make neat study. If people in Ireland test true for the teeth and lack of alcohol metabolizing enzyme, they are inuit type. If only "black irish" in America have these traits, it is people with Native american or other "undesireable" dark blood passing themselves off as black irish to avoid persecution.
As far as the Celts go - they were a completely different people than the Picts. They were very tall and fair, and their diet and economy was based on animal herding, and later, grain growing. They stretched from siberia and western china to the atlantic and then through many many wars were enventually "pushed off the edge of the earth" to ireland, they had spread there for the good land as they were being fought on the east side by new peoples. Eventually only the water barrier is what left Ireland a Celtic Refuge (and the hills of wales made it hard to conquer. The rugged landscape and their own grit is what protected the scots).

-- posted by blckirish