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The most research indicates the bulk of Irish people are descended from

settlers from an Ice Age refuge in the Pyrenees. Check out "Western Atlantic Modal Haplotype" for more info. The terms Celtic, Viking, Norman, English, Scottish are cultural terms and not necessarily biological. Despite what the following answer

states researchers McEvoy et al. found "scant evidence of Scandinavian Y-chromosome introgression in a general Irish population sample". The findings were consistent with a relatively small number of Norse settlers and descendants migrating into Ireland in the period of 800-1200 AD suggesting that Norse colonial settlements might have been largely composed of indigenous Irish.

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We're Celtic and Viking ( i.e. from Scandinavia), Norman (from France) and following the plantations in the Northern Ireland and the Pale i.e. around Dublin part Anglo.

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