Book: The Origins Of The Irish.
It is a question that has preoccupied us for centuries – what does it mean to be Irish? What are the origins of our race? Is there such a thing as Irish genetic purity? How would we feel if the archetypical Irishman was, in fact, half-British? And does it matter anyway, if in the next 20-30,000 years every trace of Irish people and culture will be scraped clean from its surface by new ice sheets? These are just a few of the questions that James Mallory explores in his new book, The Origins of the Irish and it is the ...
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