Re: English, Irish, Scots: They're All One, Genes Suggest


Britain and Ireland are so thoroughly divided in their histories that
there is no single word to refer to the inhabitants of both islands.

The article has already gone wrong at this point. In the works of the
great geographer Ptolemy, the two largest islands in the British Isles
(Brettanikai nesoi) are Great Britain (Megale Brettania, otherwise
Albion) and Little Britain (Mikra Brettania, otherwise Hibernia).
There has been continuous migration between the two islands through
recorded history and before it. And the islands effectively formed a
single nation from 1603 (when the King of Scots succeeded to the
thrones of England and Ireland).

It is not genetics that separates the UK from the ROI, it is religion.

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