ANCESTRY OF CLAN STEWART, THE SANGREAL :)

I AM 68% IRISH/SCOTTISH/WELSH, 26% BRITISH 2% WEST EUROPEAN, 2% FINNISH AND NORTH WEST RUSSIAN, 1% SCANDINAVIAN AND 1% EAST EUROPEAN.
WHILE SCOTLAND'S UNION WITH ENGLAND DEALT A BLOW TO HIGHLAND CULTURE, IT ALSO HELP USHER IN THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT, AND THE COUNTRY BECAME KNOWN FOR ITS SCHOOLS AND GREAT THINKERS.
HOWEVER, IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, INSTEAD OF EXPORTING IDEAS, SCOTLAND BEGAN TO EXPORT SCOTS.

THE CLEARANCES, WHICH FORCED TENANTS OF THEIR LAND, FAMINE, INDUSTRiALIZATION, RECESSION AND THE LURE OF GOLD MOTIVATED MANY TO MIGRATE TO GREAT BRITAIN, AMERICA AND THE FARTHER SHORES OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.

(IRELAND)

IRELAND IS LOCATED IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, DIRECTLY WEST OF GREAT BRITAIN.
A VARIETY OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL INFLUENCES HAVE SHAPED IRELAND AS WE KNOW HER TODAY.
IRELAND'S MODERN CULTURE REMAINS DEEPLY ROOTED IN THE CELTIC CULTURE THAT SPREAD ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL EUROPE AND INTO THE BRITISH ISLES.
ALONG WITH WALES, SCOTLAND AND A HANDFUL OF OTHER ISOLATED COMMUNITIES WITH THE BRITISH ISLES, IRELAND REMAINS ONE OF THE LAST HOLDOUTS OF THE ANCIENT CELTIC LANGUAGES THAT WERE ONCE SPOKEN THROUGHOUT MUCH OF WESTERN EUROPE.
AND THOUGH CLOSELY TIED TO GREAT BRITAIN, BOTH GEOGRAPHICALLY AND HISTORICALLY, THE IRISH HAVE FIERCELY MAINTAINED THEIR UNIQUE CHARACTER THROUGH THE CENTURIES.

(PREHISTORIC IRELAND AND SCOTLAND)

AFTER THE ICE AGE GLACIERS RETREATED FROM NORTHERN EUROPE MORE THAN 9000 YEARS AGO, HUNTER-GATHERERS SPREAD NORTH INTO WHAT IS NOW GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, DURING THE MIDDLE STONE AGE.

SOME 3000 YEARS LATER, DURING THE NEW STONE AGE, THE FIRST FARMING COMMUNITIES APPEARED IN IRELAND.

THE BRONZE AGE BEGAN 4500 YEARS AGO AND BROUGHT WITH IT NEW SKILLS LINKED TO METALWORKING AND POTTERY.

DURING THE LATE BRONZE AGE, IRON WAS DISCOVERED IN MAINLAND EUROPE AND A NEW CULTURAL PHENOMENON BEGAN TO EVOLVE.

AROUND 500 B.C., THE BRONZE AGE GAVE WAY TO AN EARLY IRON AGE THAT SPREAD ACROSS ALL OF WESTERN EUROPE, INCLUDING THE BRITISH ISLES.

THESE NEW PEOPLE ORIGINATED IN CENTRAL EUROPE, NEAR WHAT IS AUSTRIA TODAY.

THEY WERE DIVIDED INTO MANY DIFFERENT TRIBES BUT WERE COLLECTIVELY KNOWN AS THE CELTS.

(THE CELTS)

FROM AROUND 400 B.C. TO 275 B.C., VARIOUS TRIBES EXPANDED TO THE IBERIAN PENINSULA, FRANCE, ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND-EVEN AS FAR AS TURKEY.

TODAY WE REFER TO THESE TRIBES AS 'CELTIC' THOUGH THIS IS A MODERN TERM WHICH ONLY CAME INTO USE IN THE 18TH CENTURY.

AS THE ROMAN EMPIRE EXPANDED BEYOND THE ITALIAN PENINSULA, IT BEGAN TO COME INTO INCREASING CONTACT WITH THE CELTS OF FRANCE, WHOM THE ROMANS CALLED "GAULS."

"THE GAULS."

THE ROMANS EVENTUALLY CONQUERED THE "GAULS" AND BEGAN AN INVASION OF THE BRITISH ISLES IN 43A.D.

MOST OF SOUTHERN BRITAIN WAS CONQUERED AND OCCUPIED OVER THE COURSE OF A FEW DECADES.
AS THE ROMAN EMPIRE ADVANCED, THE CELTIC TRIBES WERE FORCED TO RETREAT TO OTHER AREAS WHERE THE CELTIC TRIBES STILL CONTROLLED.
MAINLY WALES, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, THE ISLE OF MAN AND BRITTANY,
THE ROMAN PRESENCE ALMOST CERTAINLY WIPED OUT THE CELTIC TRIBES IN ENGLAND, EVEN REPLACING THEIR LANGUAGE.
SINCE THE ROMANS NEVER OCCUPIED IRELAND OR SCOTLAND IN ANY REAL SENSE, THEY ARE THE FEW REGIONS UPON THIS EARTH WHERE THE CELTIC LANGUAGES ARE STILL SPOKEN TODAY IN 2017.
EVEN THE POLITICIANS IN NORTHERN IRELAND ON THE 15/10/2017 ARE STILL NOT IN GOVERNMENT BECAUSE OF THE IMPASS OF THE IRISH LANGUAGE ACT, WHICH SINN FEIN WISH INCLUDED WITHIN THE NORTHERN IRELAND LAW, OR ELSE THEIR POLITICIANS REMAIN OUT OF GOVERNMENT, THOUGH ON FULL PAY!
SO IT JUST SHOWS YOU THAT ANCIENT LANGUAGES STILL HAVE THE POWER DIVIDE THE POLITICIANS OF THIS EARTH.
POLITICS IS BOLLITICS :(

(THE VIKINGS)

BEGINNING IN THE LATE 8TH CENTURY, VIKING RAIDERS BEGAN TO ATTACK THE EAST COAST OF ENGLAND AND THE NORTHERN ISLANDS OFF SCOTLAND, THOUGH THIS RAIDING HAD BE GOING ON FOR MUCH LONGER, IF TRUTH BE TOLD, WHICH MEANT BLOODLINES WERE MIXING AS HOSTAGES AND SLAVES, AND EVEN WIVES WERE TAKEN BY THE RAIDERS A BROUGHT BACK TO THE VIKING LANDS.

THE FIRST RECORDED RAID IN IRELAND WAS IN 795 A.D., ON THE ISLAND OF LAMBAY, OFF THE COAST OF DUBLIN, THOUGH THEY HAD BEEN VISITING IRELAND AND SCOTLAND MUCH LONGER THAN REPORTED BY YOUR EARTHLY RECORDS.

FOR THE NEXT TWO CENTURIES THE VIKINGS CONTINUED TO ATTACK IRISH VILLAGES AND MONASTERIES, SETTING UP PERMANENT TRADING POSTS IN DUBLIN, CORK, WEXFORD, WATERFORD AND LIMERICK.

AS THEY SETTLED IN IRELAND, VIKING INTERMARRIED AND HAD RELATIONS WITH THE NATIVE IRISH POPULATION.

TODAY MANY IRISH SURNAMES HAVE VIKING ROOTS, SUCH AS, LOUGHLIN, DOYLE AND COTTER TO MENTION BUT THREE.

SO AS YOU SEE, WHEN NATIONS BEGIN TO TRAVEL, AND INTERMARRY AND BREED, BLOODLINES INTERTWINE, WHICH MOST UPON THIS EARTH WHO HAVE NOT HAD THEIR DNA RESEARCHED.

I SUGGEST YOU DO THIS END OF 2017, OR START OF 2018, AND GO IN A JOURNEY OF OF DISCOVERY INTO THE ORIGINS OF EARTHLY SELF :)

WE ARE ALL ONE, IF TRUTH BE TOLD, OR AT LEAST THAT'S THE WAY IT USE TO BE.

TO BE CONTINUED....

SAN DOM DE NANTA VAN SAN NANTESS ESTANTO?