Surprising origin of Irish fair skin (far away from Ireland) 

My skin is so pale it is almost blue. I can't be in the direct sun for more than 10 minutes without burning. Thankful for sunscreen!

That's right... that's why there are so many pale skinned people in the Middle East. It stands to reason.

Someone had pale skin from 10,000 years ago, yet the mainstream media claims Irish and British people had dark skin like Cheddar man from around the same period? 🤔

Irish fair skin is the most beautiful ❤🎉

So I have Red Hair- Mutation. Blue eyes- Mutation!.... Pale Skin- MUTATION! I really should be in the X-Men

The lighter complexion of Irish and (northern euros in general) is a bit more complicated than this video suggests. It came from Eastern European agriculturalist groups who themselves were a mix of light skinned Mediterranean farmers and blonde blue eyed hunter gatherers (funnelbeaker and globular amphora) who went on to mix with darker Indo-Europeans (corded ware) The Neolithic farmers also did not come from North Africa lol, they merely colonised that area like they did much of Europe from the Near East.

Im a Gael and my clan all very Pale skinned and have pale blue eyes. Lots Redheads and fair haired in my clan. Iv passed it on as i have 11 children and 19 grandchildren and counting. Im majority Irish / Scots with some English, Welsh and German origin. 😎

I’m Scots Irish English and moms side has red hair and blue eyes, dad has light brown hair and blue eyes. Sister and I have blonde hair as kids, now light brown with blue eyes. We’re quite fair and some freckles. Sometimes I really wish I had gotten the red hair, it’s so beautiful. Never hide your beautiful red hair! Wear gobs of sunscreen daily too!

Irish people have very white skin and they can never tan, they always sunburn. That's because most have the "red hair" gene, but it is hidden and not always manifested. For example many men have brown hair, but red beards

I have a very fair skin tone, and I have Red Hair. I have also taken part in the University of Edinburgh search for the Red Hair Gene. Yes it exists and yes I carry the Red Hair Gene, and so do my two sisters, my three nieces, and two great nephews. Each colour is slightly different from the others. I'll leave some pieces of advice re Red Hair. Take care of it. Red Hair people have less hair attached to the scalp than most. Never try to dye it, it's a beautiful colour, and if you do take care, you will keep the colour longer than your peers who aren't Red Haired. .many years more,

Fifty shades of fair; I have Ivory white skin & flaxen blonde hair & sky blue eyes, I have never been sunburnt & really tan easily, my blonde hair come from my granny from Wexford Vikings & all that, she had porcelain skin & platinum blonde hair burnt like bacon in the sun.Her daughter my mother had jet black hair dark brown skin & blue eyes my father had jet black hair olive skin & ice blue eyes, but they had me & a red haired sibling oh & my child has red hair despite her dad having jet black hair olive skin & dark brown eyes, yes we are all Irish.Red hair occurs when both parents carry the red haired gene 🧬.We the Irish have the most diverse hair & eye colour anywhere in the world that’s why we are soooo gorgeous my fellow Celtic Charmers😉.

I am Irish/Scottish & Mexican. I have red/auburn hair, blue eyes and I I tan easily. One of my siblings has my coloring and the other two are brown eyed and black haired. Genetics are a beautiful thing!

Me and my family definitely have the gene,red hair green eyes or blue! I hated it growing up but love it now

My DNA came back 63% Irish / British and the rest Polish/Finland and Im white with a red beard and love it😂

That does not sound quite correct. Modern Irish descend from Bell Beaker populations descending from Yamnaya Steppe cultures of northwestern Eurasia. They arrived in Ireland around 4500 years ago, displacing earlier Anatolian Neolithic farming populations. If the gene variant described in this video resulted in fair skin across northern Europe, it came by way of a much different route than describe here.

The middle east would have been much colder at the time as the rest of the northern hemisphere would still have been just emerging from glaciation.

The Caucasians were from the tribes of Benjamin and Judah living in the Cacasus mtns, moved to Ireland to meet the Isrealite tribe of Dan (Dan-ube river) who called them their Caucasus cousins. So the British Isles are the tribes of Israel, along with France (Ruben), Norway (Naphtali), and other western european nations connected to the mass migration of the Israelites several times away from the babylonian tribes, (romans, russia, )

On holidays in Turkey the local restaurant was run by a Turkish Family. Very pale skin and eyes of the deepest blue, very striking.

I'm only one quarter celtic and have spanish/greek/Italian. Macedonian Albanian a tiny bit of native american black, east indian, middle eastern jewish Scandinavian German french Dutch slavic russian/polish. I am very fair! But when they say celts are fair they arent kidding I have red hair. But I do tan some and have brown eyes and look a little more exotic then a pure celt. But celts are so fair their they must be able lighten people up pretty fast within in even a couple generations. My dad is even fairer then I am although we're still no where near as fair as these pure celts! And he's the one I get the mediterenan middle eastern black indian stuff from. He's half celtic. He has very fair almost white skin ink black hair and blues eyes. But looks mixed. We both burn easily but tan a little. My mom who has very little celtic ancestry who's jewish german and Scandinavian tans better than either of us and doesn't burn easisly like we do. Most people because my skin is so fair and I have red hair often assume I'm way more Celtic then I actually am. My ancestry test surprised me I actually expected to be super Celtic but it was only a quarter.

My family members are very light skinned on both sides, but especially so on my father's side and most are redheads, with green or blue eyes. Fiery red too. My daughter's skin is so white she looks like a porcelain doll. For some reason the males get either a more blondish or auburn color to their hair as they get older and only the beard stays pretty red. The females keep the bright red their whole lives. Not sure why that is. 🤷‍♂️ They also have a really high rate of having twins. My father is a twin, my sister has twins, 3 of my cousins have twins. Has anyone else with a family of pale redheads seen a surprising amount of twins consistently born? I have wondered if there might be a connection or not.

I'm German, Irish, Scottish, English and French. I'm extremely white with freckles. I can tan in Summer and get lightly sunburned.

My Mom had red hair, blue eyes, & freckles - her ancestors were McKissicks (Derry), McKays (Down), Storeys (all over Ulster), McIntyres (?), & Greggs (Cork). My Dad had Black hair, brown eyes, & dark ruddy complexion - his ancestors were Butlers (Kilkenny), Redmonds (Wexford), deLaceys (Dublin), Swifts (Dublin), Perrys (Down), (Mc)Nicholls (Tyrone), Charltons (Down?), & Hoppers (Wexford). So, as far as I know, my ancestors were mostly Highland Scottish (Gallowglas) & Anglo-Irish on Mom's side, & Hiberno-Norman, Anglo-Irish, & Gallowglas on Dad's side. There's also some Welsh, Anglo-Norman, Scandinavian-English, Northern Italian, & East European thrown in the mix on both sides. Any help or suggestions appreciated.

I’m Irish, I’m pale, I don’t tan and I love it. Why would I want to look like most people on the planet. Pale skin, blue/green eyes and auburn hair-unique!! I refuse to buy into the roasted old shoe leather look!

im albanian and all my ancestors looked irish and i look like dark irish

I'm so pale I turn pink in the sun, the only tanned parts are the freckles

>studies suggest >experts are saying >scientists believe that >according to research >87% of people believe that sure thing pal

There is nothing more beautiful than the fair skin of an Irish woman with red hair!

I'm Scottish, and we are just as fair, I can get burnt on a cloudy day in February, and my daughter, who has red hair, cant be photographed with others because the result is a pure white face

Fair skin is incorrect, we have pale white skin. Fair skinned people are the Germanic types who a yellowish tint to their skin with usually fair (Yellow) hair.

I adore very fair skin...beautiful.

It's actually The University of Pennsylvania. There is no school called Pennsylvania University. Just FYI

Give me a break, so now there's a Cheddar Man of Ireland?

I am 100% Irish, on both sides, from as far back as any of my family knows. I have the blackest hair, the whitest skin and the bluest eyes, as does everyone in my family. A relative once told me the Irish black hair emanates from the Spanish Armada ships being wrecked off the Irish coast and the stranded sailors marrying Irish girls. Is that true, or an urban myth?

I met a middle eastern lady whose children have fair skin and red hair.

Of course the reason it was selected for in Ireland IS due to climate even if the mutation didnt originate there.

Came here from Abhijit video of fair skin came from india where someone talked of your video so i was trying to find it for a long time and now I did

That is pretty amazing!

Noah and his arc landed in Armenia after the flood. This was well known. When the Turks and other mid eastern groups were killing Armenians or forcing them out of their land, Armenians went to Russia's southern border and to Ireland and Scotland.

I can say with 100% certainty that if I or other Irish men or women got more sun they would be much much darker. My mother and dad are both Irish Americans (I am too) I am some what pale, but ever since I been getting more and more sun I have gotten much much darker. Also never knew that Irish dna was so rich tbh I also was so confused seeing my dad and mom being darker than me wondering how I am Irish.

Certainly, "Mediterranean Celts" are considered to be among the very first Irish people to settle in Ireland, more than 3,000 years ago. They are darker than the ordinary Irish people who came at about the same time.

I'm Irish with pale skin and freckles. Interesting video and even made me giggle once or twice. Thanks 😂

I am Green eyed , fair skinned and red haired . My name Moran as also been discovered in Spain. This then is my heritage .

it's not really surprising, since Noah's sons all came from the Mideast ( northern area, caucasus, Mt Ararat) . also we tend to NOT realize that there have always been light skinned blondes, redheads, and blue eyes in the mideast all along. Iran, Israel, etc. The Old Testament does mention Esau and David, both having redhead complexion and/ or hair.

We came from outer space as an alien prisoner colony and were stuck on the island,lol.We were an angry bunch.

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Funnily enough I am Irish having had an ancestry dna test done it came back as 100% Irish and amoung 3% of the world population that can claim 100% heritage. Although I am not fair skinned I have a dark complexion with brown hair and blue eyes.

You get a thumbs down. How can you tell me we're connected to the same particular person. But not tell me who this person is? Rely dude?

Very Dark hair Very very pale skin.

So what about the dark Irish people? My dad’s whole family were from County Kilkenny but they were all very dark skinned and tanned so easily with jet black thick hair and dark brown eyes??

My painfully fair skin is a mutation?

Indogipsies again are also irish, ? But this time the indogipsies came from every direction, left right south central, the thing that cracks me up is ,,, if you are gipsy you definatly have light skin , wtf? Do the travelers of ireland are blond blue eyed and fair skined? Anyone knows?

Na. I still suspect my Irish pale skinned complexion is related to the 345 days of rain we get here. It washes all the tan off a me.

This is just how natural selection works… not abnormal.

I have pale skin and reddish hair. Unfortunately I don’t have blue eyes (mine are hazel), so I don’t qualify as a pure mutation. Lol

I love video clips like this. It makes sense and could be possible!

Thank you interesting

i would have loved the red haired and freckled colouring but got that dark Celt thing with the dark eyes, olive skin and dark eyes

Myself and my sisters are fair haired and red haired and 3 have blue eyes and one has brown eyes. My lrish Mam had dark brown hair tanned easily and big brown eyes. My lrish father had curly fair hair and blue eyes. We burnt easily

Song of Solomon 5:10 KJV 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. This sounds like the complexion of an Irish person. 😁

I thought that the mutations that work in your favour become standard over the generations, that's how evolution works. The fair skin enabled more use of the sunshine needed by the human body to create vitamins D (I think), so we're the product of 10,000 years or more of grey skys and short winter days

How many people here are fair skin/ RH negative? There is a mediterranean connection.

My family that came from Ireland had olive skin green brown or hazel eyes

My Irish sisters are so beautiful!❤️

I don’t really buy that explanation as I have yet to see one person from the Middle East with bright red hair fair skin and freckles- it’s illogical. Could there be an ancestral gene we share related to skin tone yes sure.

The flaw in your argument is that the Irish people are a mixture of Nordic peoples. Cork/Dublin and probably other places are Viking settlements. We don't know who was there before the Celts, or the fairness of their skins. We don't know if the Celts had fair skin among their number, or the Normans, who are essentially Vikings. Over the last one thousand years, the population of Ireland, since the invasion of the Vikings, the Normans and the accidental immigration of the Spaniards, today is widely dispersed. My own family comes primarily from Cork. In my family you were either a blond or a redhead, or, you were left by the mailman, primarily Viking Nordic. :-)

Proud of it!!! 💖💋

1:54: colonization of Europe was not via North Africa but via middle east.

I’m of blonde haired Irish descent!

After reading all these great comments, I'm more confused than ever. I think, as we all came out of Africa, and moved around the planet, so, we all adjusted to climates in which we ended up. Fascinating subject though.

I’m the only one in my family with any melanin apparent in their appearance. I get pretty dark too. And in the age of 23&me we know I’m absolutely both my parents kid. Figure I must be a throwback.

The title is just weird to me. Why do you say “Irish fair skin” when practically all of northern, western and eastern Europe also has a fair skinned native majority. Nothing about it is unique to Irish people. Even southern Europe too ,has plenty of pale people, but naturally, they also have a higher proportion of tan/olive skinned people as well. I mean,Saoirse Ronan the actress in your thumbnail always reminded me of Russian women I’ve seen before, bc i used to live in a Baltic country with a large Russian minority. The sandy blonde hair and ice blue eyes. She even played a Russian girl in the movie The Seagull a few years ago. Maybe you need to travel more lol

Yes the Irish are pretty fair skinned especially the ones with red hair.

You mention half truth The real research was that ancestor came from India

It actually actually originated from northwest Iran

8000 years ago I think you need to go look at your history my friend it’s more like 30,000 years ago. Ireland

Redhead with very pale skin... lrish, Scottish and Norse Ancestry... l found this very lnteresting.

I am half Irish and half Highland Scots. My veins are clearly visible beneath my paperwhite skin.

My father had black hair and pale skin he came from Tipperary all but one of he's brothers and sisters had black hair he had blond hair my hair had lots of ginger in it my son has a ginger beard

the pale skin in Caucasians is result of 2 factors. First the change in diet, when after the end of the last ice age (approx. 10k BC), agriculture came about and slowly spread. This lead to a drastic decrease in consumption of food rich in vit D (meat, organs, eggs) in favour of grains. As Humans can either metabolise vit D from food or from sunlight, lighter skin in vit D-deficient farmers became an evolutionary advantage in northerly latitudes and quickly spread through the population. People, such as the Inuits (Eskimos) who are the most northerly living humans, remained hunter/gatherers and their skin tone didn't need to change, hence they are still relatively dark. The first modern Europeans (Cheddar man) were indeed much darker as well, but their descendants are very few (usually >5%) among modern Europeans, who are mostly hybrids of middle-eastern Neolithic farmers and Yamnaya/Indo-European pastoralists.

Wow redheads came from the middle East

Our caucasian history holds the Cossacks were among the lightest.

I noticed Irish is way lighter than British

I’m blond, blue eyes and tan great. Somebody mixed up the X’s and Y’s.

Vampire-like, I abhor the direct sunlight on my skin. I had light red hair too. But very early on I learned that the sun qwas no friend to me, so no prolonged exposure, even in cloudy Ireland,

Oh well that can’t be true the first ever sign of man was actually found in Lithuania so it could possibly be the Middle East

False !!!!! Blue eyes came from Atlas Mountains in Morocco, berbers of middle Atlas Mountains , not Middle East!!!!! They are moors atlanteans after lemuria Atlantis and they are originally elves

I am not all irish but my irish relatives had hair and olive skin like me they here not white or pink

Mutation for White skin was unlocked in Indian people who were vegetarian & who were doing agriculture & keeping cows. North west reason is very good agriculture belt in India. It must have taken place there & study showed it happened near India.

With Irish ancestry my skin used to be as white as the background to this post. People used to laugh when l took off my shirt.

Do you have some Irish legends about Chud'? It's rare white skinned population, like albino but white eyed, didn't except Christianity and killed themselves

fairy tales More "there is no such thing as Irish" tropes

That man was Abraham, whose two sons were Ishmael and Isaac. Ishmael's mother was dark skin, Hagar, the maid of Sarah, Abraham;'s wife. Hagar was wild and destructive, and so are her ancestors, the Arab nations. Sarah's son Isaac, God gave His blessing and said the nations of wisdom would follow, which are the Israelite tribes, who are white. In Christ's day, those who were not His followers described him as tall, over six feet, blond soft curly hair to his shoulders, bright blue eyes, and of a sublime refined light skinned face and nature seemingly perfect in form compared to other people.

I'm a mutant

Middle East: no coconut

I love it!

The same has been said of people with blue eyes. It all started from one ancestor had a mutation. Before that, all humans had brown eyes.

So I'm middle East? If I'm Irish? Help I'm a slow learner

I think the Irish are the palest people in the world. Other northern and eastern europeans tan easily, they have a yellowish skin color, even olive skin, on the other hand, the Irish are very pale (not all, but most). Always sunburn. That is due to the mc1r gene

My brother and I look completely different, my brother has dark brown hair and dark brown eyes and has a olive skin colour where he can tan very easily and doesn't burn very much and I have dark blonde/light brown hair and dark blue eyes and I have a very pale skin colour where I burn very easily

I’m Scottish, Norwegian and Icelandic. I’m clear white lol red hair and green eyes