The Fitz-Patrick Mythology

Migration of Gaels

NOTE: A Modern Day Proposal For Migration of Gaels

Haplogroup H is a predominantly European haplogroup that participated in a population expansion beginning approximately 20,000 years ago. Today, about 30% of all mitochondrial lineages in Europe are classified as haplogroup H. It is rather uniformly distributed throughout Europe suggesting a major role in the peopling of Europe, and descendant lineages of the original haplogroup H appear in the Near East as a result of migration.

The researchers make a bigger deal out of the differences in MtDNA haplogroup H than I think are actually warranted, with prehistoric groups displaying

between 37-44% and modern day Basque displaying 48%. It still looks to me that 5000 YBP, Basque groups still had a very high frequency of haplogroup H - only

slightly lower than present day populations. I do believe we have direct relations to the Basque as this study as shown. Gaelic (Irish) and Basque are the two most original languages in Europe.

Based mitochondrial DNA, Mac Giolla Padraigh belong to haplogroup H, which is also the most common one in Europe. Our main difference is the fact that our group also split off and went west from M89 into northern Africa across from the Straits of Gibralter. This also shows our Scythian roots as well.