Exploring Ireland’s Paranormal Middle Eastern Roots  

This is why materials as this are frequently classified as "Ephemera." As a child I inherited my grandmother's 700 volume library. I had a pile beside my bed to throw at my younger brother when he bothered me. When I went off to college my sister boxed them up and announced to my mother she saw no reason why I would ever want old books anyway. My father died shortly after my parents 50th Anniversary, I helped my mother clear the house in preparation to sell it. It was then, decades later, I discovered he had preserved and protected them for me. Many turned out be early commercial publications of the likes of Greyfriar's Bobby and my Grandmother's correspondence with the author. One was a water damaged copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence that had intrigued me in my early teen years. It had eventually lead me to spend almost 6 months travelling Iraq, Syria Jordan and Palestine with a map I'd copied from it. At one time I was an Archives and Special Collections Librarian and I never got over my veneration of old books. So very much is lost, because no one appreciates its potential.

Lots of books were destroyed by the British when they invaded. A professor from Trinity college dublin visiting england in the 1890s was asked by a Lord he was visiting to examine a book that the Lord thought might be egyptian. He said it was in his family for generations but he didn't know where it came from. The professor looked at the book and i quote from his diary." I turned pale and then feared the Lord saw this, for if he knew he had a book of ancient Irish laws(brehon laws) he would have surely throw it in the fire" so he told him he didnt know but could he take it back to ireland to study. The lord agreed and needless to say he never got it back. Still can be seen in trinity college. Can you imagine what was destroyed when they invaded. We never will know the full extent. But interesting he taught it looked egyptian.

I’m from Iran. Born and raised. I look like a typical Persian, white skin, almond brown eyes, dark brown hair. When I took a DNA test for my tribal ancestry, my highest genetics match was to Northern Ireland, followed by Southern Ireland and then to Caucasians of Afghanistan ( by a large margin). I was shocked. I had plenty of Northern Europe in the mix. Years later, I had a child with an English man and my son was born w red hair. A very Irish thing. To have a red hair baby, one must be a recessive. I know of no one w red hair in my family. Anyhow, the whole thing is very mysterious.

There are specific scary stories Iraqi grandmas tell about the 'sluagh' which I know is part of Gaelic folklore. Some of these stories are passed down through generations and predate the internet. My grandmother heard it from her grandmother and both women lived most of their lives in a village near the marshes. I have also noticed other ties to Irish folklore specifically. I have always felt connected to Celtic traditions too (since I was a kid) and have never really understood why or where it came from.

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I think the fact that we're always so mystified about our ancestors achievements displays our inability to understand that they were far more sophisticated than we've been led to believe.

A very long time ago I recall reading about a nomadic tribe in Morocco who's language is so similar to Welsh that the 2 ethnic groups could easily have a full blown conversation with no problems understanding each other.

On my first visit to Morocco 40 years ago, I was watching four street musicians, two violin players and two percussionists. The rhythms and scales were a bit alien to my ears to start with but the musicianship was superb so I tipped them and hung around a while. I noticed that I coud count in both threes and fours and then one of those cold shivers went down my back as the thought came out of nowhere that if the Irish band The Chieftains were here they would be jamming effortlessly within a couple of minutes with these street performers. The name of one of the percussive instrument was called bendir which was very similar to the Irish bodhran.

I am 2ed gen Irish born in the states on both sides of my family. My husband was German and Dutch. Our son did a DNA test that traced back to the middle east. We were utterly confused and assumed the test was flawed. This video makes SO MUCH sense to me now !!

Back in the day, the sea wasn't a barrier. It was land-travel that was very difficult. The sea was the path of least resistance for people, goods, and ideas. The Romans hated the water. They were a land-centric empire. And this has had a distorting effect on how we look at antiquity.

As a north african berber I have noticed a striking resemblance in the paterns used to decorate traditional carpets, they either came to us or we went to them for sure.

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Always amazing content. When i visited Ireland, i learnt the Irish also historically had a strong oral tradition much like the Middle East and was something that struck as being very similar to the Jewish and Arab cultures. The Irish are naturally very expressive in their words and maintain knowledge of their folklore through poems and songs. This being a tradition continued on from the Gaelic people.

On this special day I salute all ancestors all souls! I salute where my ancestors came from and where they’re taking us!

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I am of Irish descent and I always do this. There were about three or four colonizations of Ireland the stories of the fearlaeth and the ferBolga I'm using talk to text and it just won't copy correctly and the tautha du dannin. The melanesians. The giant balllor of bales. The one-eyed for formoan king. Who was a pirate from an island. My grandmother's hair was as black as silt. And so was her daughter's. And the Irish had gypsies too. Though they had a different name. The island was originally uninhabited until the older tribes the formoans came from the middle East. They wared with the children of Danu. Until peace was made through marriage everybody in the world is related to somebody else so the kings of old are the ancestors of the present-day people I am a direct descendant of Cormac McCarthy high King of all of Ireland. And Ballor of Bales. The king of the formoans. The McCarthy's lost the high seat to the O'Neal's. We also sided against Queen Elizabeth and with the Spanish. For some reason I'm thinking 1540 but the Spanish Armada was 1599.and Here's a little bit of information for you. Leprechauns and fairies both exist. Although I've never seen a banshee.

In terms of archeology and genetics arguably one of the earliest records of human activity in Ireland was the remnants of a butchered deer bone found in a cave in either Kerry or cork I believe that dates from 30,000 years ago. And is one of the oldest artefacts for human activity in the British isles. And in Irish mythology the coming of people to Ireland is seen in waves and this is reflected through history too. Where we had prehistoric hunter-gatherers, neolithic farmers, and then the bronze age Smith's and craftsmen. And these peoples likely came here through boat or through land bridges just at the end of the last ice age. And in our mythology you have the fomorians, the tuatha de danann, and the Gaels (with the fir bolg shoehorned in as well). We learn a lot of this from the pseudohistorical book of invasions in which the Irish are the descendants of Noah after the flood and eventually they split into three groups the tuatha de dannan, the fir bolg, and Gaels. The fir bolgs go to Greece where they are enslaved and made to carry bags of soil for agriculture (hence fir bolg means men of bags), the tuatha went to the north to 3 cities where they learned magic and sorcery. The Gaels went to Iberia where they learned warfare, crafting, smithing, and how to work the land and one of their soldiers was the Míl Espaine or (the soldier of Spain). First the fir bolg came who where then conquered by the tuatha and their magic, then the Gaels came who conquered the tuatha due to their better mastery of the land. While pseudohistorical the idea of our ancestors coming from Iberia is found not only in Irish texts but also in a few other medieval Christian texts and it is described as the "motherland of all races". But let's go back to the historical people's. You have prehistoric hunter gatherers who were then conquered by neolithic farmers who there then conquered by bronze age Smith's and craftsmen. Now post-glacial we find the emergence of the ancient Version of the Basque language spread throughout Europe going north, followed by Indo-European language spread in the early neolithic times spreading west, followed by the Semitic languages coming up the western coast of Europe. And in fact, the "Celtic language" emerged quite later in Europe. The term Celtic in fact is really only a linguistic term for la guage groups and at best a cultural one too, but it is not a genetic or ethnic term. An interesting features in all of this is the bell-beaker culture which was a style of pottery and arguably people that we think came from Portugal and spread out all over Europe at the time and some of the earliest recorded evidence we have of this comes from Iberia and Portugal. This pottery made its way to Ireland and is believed to have lasted in Ireland for a period of time after the decline of this culture in mainland Europe. And it is widely believed that the Celts came from central Europe. However, this translation is based on a mistake. When the historian Herodotus beloved that the Danube started in the Pyrenees and that the homeland of the Celts was at the sources of the Danube. So later on, scholars in the 19th-20th centuries had better maps and knew that the Danube started in central Europe and so this account of Herodotus was changed to it meaning central Europe, even though everything thing else Herodotus states says the Celts originated in Iberia. So we have archeological evidence stating that there is a great link between Ireland and Iberia, and also written accounts from Ireland and Rome stating yea the Celts came from here. But what about genetics? Well it has been found that in terms of blood groupings and DNA evidence that the Basque peoples, modern day Iberians, and modern day Irish and Scottish people and linked closer to each other than any other peoples in Europe. So we can pretty much say that the ancient Irish came from somewhere in the Iberian peninsula. Moreover due to the Iberian peninsulas close proximity to North Africa and it being on the Mediterranean and that Iberia has one of the highest levels of North African DNA in Europe and can be found all the way back to Carthaginian times if not perhaps before this also. So there is a strong link between Ireland and North Africa. Plus if we go into Christian times in the early centuries in Ireland a lot of the artwork teachings brought to Ireland from missionaries who came from the Mediterranean and Roman Britain settled here and directly had an effect on early Irish-christian culture. However, in terms of bel and ba'al. It's likely that bel wasn't an Irish god and merely a creation of early Irish Christian scholars because they did in fact make up characters and stories. For example, the children of lir is an entirely Christian story. Moreover, his association with the festival of Beltane is an entirely a modern belief as with all Irish festival they used to mark certain dates in the agricultural year. It doesn't mean fire of bel it most likely means bright fire and was used to mark summer and the return of good weather. Moreover, we can tell which gods in Irish mythology were real and which ones were fictional through entomology, archeology, and depiction. For example Lugh is most likely an Irish version of the Indo-European god Lugus as their name is the same and they have similar associations. And moreover lughs depiction Irish mythology is never consistent he is either a great hero, a magical human, a druid, a spirit, and that in the story of the tailteann games is seen to be be victorious over the spirits of the otherworld seemingly implying he's not one. Bel has none of this and just vaguely appears. It's likely that early Christian scholars were aware of this demon in Christian belief and while writing about Ireland's ancient past put him as to highlight Ireland's pagan past with a demon they were familiar with.

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Seems like we’re rooting up more evidence every day that illustrates that we really don’t know what has been going on in the past. Information like this tends to make today’s issues seem not so unusual.

My Lebanese husband always commented how Irish dancing is very similar to the Lebanese Dabke dancing. Very upright position of the upper body.

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If anyone is interested in the Irish language (Gaelige) without learning it, Manchan Magan has some fantastic books such as '32 words for field' outlining how incredibly descriptive and poetic it is.

My 81 year old father had a genetic test. Tracking back 500 years, his entire genetic background was located in a 30 mile square of the Roscommon/Galway border. They still call him a "Blow in" 😃

I'm part Irish, part native American. This is really good stuff thank you

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As someone who is 50% irish, mom is from ireland, and with a father from Tunisia. This video captivated me in ways I never knew something could.

Very interesting. I traveled to Morocco many times. After watching this, explains why i felt a connection with Morocco.

This is basically what the Oera Linda book says as well about the phoenicain/Gaul connection to Ireland and Britain. The Gauls/Golen were Phoenician priests that came from the Levant or modern Lebanon area.

Spain was Celtic long before Muslim or Roman conquest and has many artifacts from far away places. There is even evidence that there was once a city called Tartessos that mysteriously disappeared from historical sources. Likely Spanish Celts traded with their northern counterparts.

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In the 1970s, when we were still in high school, an Irish correspondent told a friend that the Irish were or considered themselves the Arabs of the north. with regard to the structure of Richat, if you do further research you will find similar structures in the Saharan south of Algeria. here we call "haouche" (house), a dwelling with outbuildings or an agricultural estate. Greetings from Algeria! (i subscribe too )

Excellent work here. In the 1990’s I came across an article that stated the Irish bag pipes and kilt came from the Middle East. I never forgot that and here many years later I come across this amazing video. Thanks for your work.

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If you listen, you can hear a distinct Middle Eastern influence in Irish music.

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When my mother-in-law first met my parents (who came to the states in1958) said "oh, I am part Irish, mostly Italian through" my dad turned and said "oh, black Irish, of course". He wasn't being demeaning in anyway, he meant olive toned skin, verses the pasty white typical Irish. He said folklore tells the tales and sad to say, most don't tell the stories anymore.

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One of the best shows on our ancient past closed off from us. Absolutely amazing thank you gentlemen thank you

If you can, please do a video on Southern Italians, not just Sicily, but places like Accettura, which is in the deep south of Italy. I'm half Southern Italian and Greek on my father's side, and I've researched that Arabs, North Africans were in that part of Italy. Thanks much.

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Your video agrees with a theory I’ve had since college in the 1970s! I am glad that somebody out there has seen the same link that I have! Thanks!

We can only speculate about how ancient people ended up where they did. We are all children of the first men and women, every single person today has a direct and unbroken decent back to the beginning of people regardless of what they believe they are. And within our DNA we hold a tiny piece of every person who makes up our being!!It's truly amazing!!

Thanks for this wonderful job of historic insight and paranormal constituants of two very closely related civilizations ... moreover, as an Algerian, I have always found striking similarities between Irish and berber music ( Algerian province of Kabylie ).

And to answer that the origin ancient stone I saw as a child around 9 or 10 .. Im not 5 times that .. :) was carved in Ogham ..and 3 gliphs Egyptian .. .I cannot be sure I was but a child but it looked that way. I heard the story of a Wedding from a sea crash on the western coast of an Exotic Princess from where her father was a pharoh.. and she married an Irish High Chieftain and they were in a great battle .. the Queen Scotia faught bravely for her kin then fell and yet they won the battle ..her descendants went on to another land and Formed Scotland in honour of her and her descendants became the Gael... .. anyway that is the story.. from a resident as child below Scotia Glen ... ... later generations formed trading routes and also moved further up the west to Galway to give Grainne Mhaol... or Bald Grainne a female whom became a chieftain 11 Husbands and scoffed at Queen Elizabeth the 1st.. anyway.. North Africa Berber.. Irish.. totally the same go look at Irish Aran sweater and compare to Berber weaves and knots... :)

Top notch really high quality stuff , I'm not sure if you have already but would you be able to do a video on wales I find them fascinating. All the best

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I'm always excited to see a new episode from Mysterious Middle East. Great collaboration too on this one. I'm currently writing a fantasy series involving some characters from the Levant and there are elements of the mysterious in my tale. So I find your videos a rich source of interesting details. Thanks for making this awesome channel.

Can't be a long term trade hub without marrying people from other cultures, adapting material culture, and adjusting language to facilitate communication.

I had my dad do a DNA test for genealogists in New Mexico, USA. My family descend from the Conquistadors that came to New Mexico from Spain and Iberia. My grandfather was blond and blue eyes, his brother had red hair and blue eyes. This is not unusual in the Spanish people of NM. Red heads pop up all the time. What was unusual is that my father's DNA was 33% British Isles. We were able to view a map with other people with the same haplogroup. He matched a lot of people from County Cork, Ireland. My family has been in NM over 500 years. Our haplogroup is JM172, Jewish. I keep asking these genealogist and historians where this British Isles DNA comes from because my father's family is well documented way back into the 1500's. This video really made me think about other ways we could have so much Irish DNA.

Keep it coming i love this, She used to always tell me we had a lot uncommon?

Love this channel and as an Irish person I've always found the similarities interesting

Excellent! Loved this video. Early man's migration has always fascinated me

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8:44 "this is only a theory ..." As a scientist, I feel compelled to point out a couple of things here... First of all, a "theory" has greater certitude and is a higher level of organization of information than is a "fact." many facts are required to develop a theory. So the phrase "only a theory" is both nonsensical and grossly misleading. Secondly, what then follows this misleading phrase is not a theory, it is a hypothesis. Fortunately, the phrase, "this is only a hypothesis..." makes perfect sense. It is important to contribute to scientific literacy, and we do so when by getting our concepts correct. Peace 🙏

16% of Irish people have the RH- negative blood gene including myself so I would love to see a video on this & where exactly my RH- ancestors came from?

Thank you so much for this. From an Irish lady living in Portugal and missing home 💕

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Another posible reason for this is the theory posted by Michael Tsarion in his books The Irish Origins of Civilization. If I remember correctly he postulates an original migration from west to east of the original settlers of Ireland the ones that were later remember in folklore as the Tuatha de Danna. He says that the TdD migrated to the Erupean mayland from Ireland to avoid a series of cataclysm like floods and earthquakes. There, for the next few hundreds or thousands of years, they spread both themselves and their idiology and mythological motifs throughout Europe, some parts of north Africa (Egypt) and the Middle East. They maybe why some of the motifs like astrotheology, a solar hero, a dying sun god, the number twelve, lions, goats, tree worship, a world tree(polar axis?), a tree of knowledge and the serpent (draco constellation?) are found throughout this areas. That it was later that their descendants started to move from east to west, some of them in an attempt to return to their ancestral land of Ireland.

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Of note - I am of Gaelic/Celtic descent and can trace my ancestry through Scotland, the Hebrides, and Ireland. I have had my DNA extensively tested and can confirm that prior to my ancestors arrival in Hebrides, my paternal line traveled through the middle east and then on to Norway. We really are all one people, if you go back far enough. Enjoyed this vid - thanks for featuring my culture - and much love!

There was a stone called the Benben stone in the ancient temple of Ra, Heliopolis. I live in Egypt but come from Ireland. I thought of this when I saw this stone, we have a mountain in Ireland called Benbulben and I wondered about that at the time. There are also depictions of Celtic Warriors here. In Ireland a traditional Irish name is Niamh (pronounced Neeve), here in Egypt Neeven is a popular name. I wondered about that too. Also the name Norah which is common here and in Ireland.

Great video, truly. [insert some bland, unsurprising statement about how I am related, thru my ancestors to Ireland] that makes me special!

This was hilarious. Thank you!

One word - TRADE People have been trading for ever! As long as there have been humans on the earth there has been trade. Case solved.

I wonder if this could explain Melungeons of the Appalachian Mts- my family is melungeon characterized most notably by the dark/black curly thick hair and the deeper olive /darker skintones ofte There are a lot of theories about where these traits come from or whether melungeons exist at all. However after doing a recent DNA i was surpised to find out i waz 75% irsh/scotch 10% Sub sahara African and 15% eastern european. The Appalachians were notably settled by the scotch and irish. This is fascinating

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The Irish folk dance is very similar to Dabkeh from Syria/Lebanon.

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I find the Irish down to earth people

This makes perfect sense to me, the north of Africa is not far from Spain, then Spanish have gone to Ireland from their country, it makes sense that the Irish could be descendants from the so called chosen people of god, I think its possible people originated from here or at least one lot of people. I've known about the language similarities for some time.

Very interesting indeed! Thank you

2:20 - Considering the amber road was active from scandinavia to egypt in the bronze age its not exactly far fetched that beads found their way through intermediaries from egypt to ireland. Considering the active tin trade in southern england it makes it even more likely. On a sidenote, the Welsh were reported to be darker skinned and darker haired than the rest of the continent by the early Roman sources, guessing that they had come from Iberia. The previously mentioned tin trade comes to mind.

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What most people do not realize is the Irish have a strong Middle Eastern tie. My line, my literal last name, is translated to mean the brown Warrior. There was a high population of Portuguese and Syrian immigration Ireland. The Irish, are known as Europe's appendix, as they have retained knowledge from pre-written history through oral tradition and was one of the first ethno groups to start practicing the written word due to the Middle Eastern influence. In particular Irish lineage lines you will find many Middle Eastern characteristics which is in my family. It's very fascinating and it is so nice to see a video that touches upon this.

A lot of people invaded Ireland 🇮🇪 Vikings were the most influential besides the British (specifically the English) But then you’d find the Spanish French & probably Portugal were all peoples and nationalities that shipped west to Ireland 🇮🇪

I'm an American with a full Irish bloodline. I've never heard this before. Very interesting

Another excellent episode, thank-you. This is now more personal to me as my fathers people came to the country we have lived in for some few centuries now from a place in Northern Ireland called Ulster Plantation. At the time of their leaving Ireland they were principally Scots living on land granted to them in Ireland. Unfortunately, or fortunately for them they had backed the crown in the English Civil War, which led to them being dispossessed from lands in Ireland to come to a new land. It was said by some that Fomorians had come from the area of Greece, where they had at one time been slaves. I enjoy your content very much, and again thank-you.

Great Video Research - + - You got me thinking Loreena McKennitt, "the mask and the mirror"

I have been to Scotia's Grave in Kerry.... Peaceful place with an odd energy.

As an Irish-descended Brit I would welcome an Irish link with the Middle East - fascinating stuff!

Most of the older mummies had red hair. There was an ancient culture and civilisation that predated the first era Egyptians and even the Sumerians, it was called Tartaria, the cabal has done their best throughout history to erase any evidence of their existence.

There is an entire intact city sitting under 1600 feet of water off Cubas western coast. Sonar shows temples, pyramids and many other structures. One geologist stated the last time the land was above water was at least 50,000 years ago. Another pushed the date even further back. This area should be the first place looked at, and is not that far from the Bimini Road.

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We are all connected wish we would just finally become one people. Just imagine if we had true Harmony.

One additional thought to support your idea. St Patrick supposedly drove all the snakes out of Ireland which is a metaphor for the removal of the Serpents that were the priestly class of Ba al or Bel. The Biblical Tribe of Dan used a snake as their symbol and of course in Ireland we have Danu and the Tuatha De Danann. In the middle east they referred on occasion to Giants as Tutannu or Titans in the Greek and Roman versions. Seems to line up mythological, historically, and linguistically. Then if you go back to Sunmerian text you get the Supreme Leader as Anu whose name is encased in these terms as well as in Uranus as an example. There is a common thread that was disheveled during the Tower of Babel incident and we are having to reverse engineer with what info we have.

How fun! I love learning about new things. Even if they bring on more questions. I would like to hope this information would let people respect and care for one another more freely.

We Must realize and respect who people are bc we have ALL been lied to on so many levels and some identities completely stolen or wiped out/hidden from them.