Hey guys. I am from Boston and took a dna test recently, expecting Irish and I was right. Any more info about this guy who I am related to?

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  4. Sorry mate knew a m-r283 once there was some unpleasantness. He’s doing a 20-life stretch. I’d rather not talk about it if it’s okay

  5. You need to go with a more reputable DNA company.

    First of all no one knows what century this man is actually from, you share a dingle strand of DNA with someone who was supposedly related to this man.

    I’d say Google is more likely to give you a more serious answer.

  11. Ah now that fella there was a known liar he had six toes on his right foot and had a thing for dwarves. I am related to king tutankhamen third cousin 3 times removed and Freddie prize Jr’s podiatrist. I love Americans wierd kink for Ireland.

  14. Imagine going on to the danish sub and saying you paid a tenner to some website and it says your great ancestor johnny was a viking can you tell me about him.

  17. The information is dodgy. Tara is in the East of Ireland, not the Northwest. Niall, according to the annals, had a bunch of sons who established multiple Ui Neill kingdoms in the East/Centre and Northwest of Ireland, giving rise to a bunch of Ui Neill dynasties that were historically important. But if you look at the geographical distribution of that genetic haplotype, the really dense concentration correlates mainly with the domains of one of those dynasties – that recorded as being founded by Eoghan – which is the one that eventually adopted O’Neill as the family moniker. So the personal individual link of Niall to that gene is somewhat iffy.

  18. There’s literally a fucking Wikipedia page on him. Go read that.

    “His coat of arms in battle was an early Celtic drawing of a fighting Irish man, which would go on to become famous as the logo for the Notre Dame American college footbal team. In battle, Ui Neill was known for dropkicking his enemies off of horseback. His most famous battle took place in the Battle of Ballybolloughs [2], where he dropkicked Micheal Ua Murchadha, the leader of the Ocailt An Fhuinneog clan. This is where the American punk rock band, The Dropkick Murphy’s, got their name.”

  20. Non banter/ BS answer…

    This just says you’re haplogroup R-M269. That doesn’t really indicate you’re necessarily Irish, more so just likely have ancestors from western europe. As shown, that mutation occurred 10,000 years ago, somewhere in eastern europe and then migrated as the people from there populated the west of europe, including Ireland. The mutation is most common in areas we consider “celtic” today, like Ireland and Northern Spain, but it’s still the most frequent haplogroup in places like Germany.

    It’s very odd to say you share a “parental ancestor” with someone. Ultimately we all share a parental ancestor, so it’s meaningless. You’re not descended from this guy. It doesn’t indicate your ancestors.

    Niall of the Nine Hostages is a semi-historical figure that likely existed but now lives on in legends from centuries after he lived. The reason he’s considered very relevant is some – now questioned -science found a genetic marker shared by millions of people believed to be traced back to a single Irish male around the same period he lived. A bit like Genghis Khan, it was common to say millions of people were descended from him.

  22. Sorry, but that’s complete conjecture you’ve been given. R-M269 is the most common Y-haplogroup in Ireland (and very prominent throughout north-western Europe in general). I think something like 40+% of Irish men carry that exact subclade of R1b. Not all of those people have surnames that are linked to the Uí Néill sect, so the idea that everyone who carries it is a descendant of Niall is sceptical to say the least.

  25. Niall of the Nine Hostages kidnapped St Patrick and kept him as a slave. He is the most evil man in Irish history, we spit on his name. You should be ashamed of yourself.

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