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The indigenous Irish *aren't* much of a mish-mash - they've been pretty static since neolithic times. But whatever they are, they're not Celts.

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/c-d/celts08.html

(This came up elsewhere. Just thought I'd mention it)

What about the Norman invasion, the people who became "More Irish than the Irish themselves"? I suppose there weren't that many, in purely numerical terms. All the Fitz names derive from that time, don't they?

I'm just quoting something I read in my school library.

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Quite possibly. As I say...it just came up recently. But the Irish were Celtic speakers, without being ethnic Celts.

(I made a facetious speculative comment that the Irish may be related to the Basques. Googling further...this has been seem to put forard by the kind of people who look at these things)