Keith Johnson
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:17:16 -0700
Only twelve sons? That doesn't seem like a lot. I know people nowadays who have
that many, especially some of my relatives from the country! What about
daughters?
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Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:34:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [RE][scifinoir2] Re: Harvard Prof Gates Is Half-Irish, Related to Cop
Who Arrested Him
Keith, I just found this link saying that, according to legend, Niall
had at least 12 sons. Other links say that as many as 8.3% of all men on the
planet carry his DNA.
http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2007/12/28/famous-dna-review-part-iii-niall-of-the-nine-hostages/
(apologies -- hotlinking again taking the day off)
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Subject : [scifinoir2] Re: Harvard Prof Gates Is Half-Irish, Related to Cop Who
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Date : Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:01:59 +0000 (UTC)
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the article doesn't say how many offspring this Irish breeder supposedly
sired...
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Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 5:17:38 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Harvard Prof Gates Is Half-Irish, Related to Cop Who Arrested Him
Henry Louis Gates Jr. , the black professor at the center of the racial story
involving his arrest outside his Harvard University-owned house, has spoken
proudly of his Irish roots .
Strangely enough, he and the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested him,
Sgt. James Crowley , both trace their ancestry back to the legendary Niall of
the Nine Hostages .
In a PBS series on African-American ancestry that he hosted in 2008, Gates
discovered his Irish roots when he found he was descended from an Irish
immigrant and a slave girl.
He went to Trinity College in Dublin to have his DNA analyzed. There he found
that he shared 10 of the 11 DNA matches with offspring of Niall of the Nine
Hostages, the fourth century warlord who created one of the dominant strains of
Irish genealogy because he had so many offspring.
onically, James Crowley , whose name in Gaelic means "hardy warrior," is also
descended from the same line as Gates, having very close links to Niall of the
Nine Hostages.
So the two men who took part in what is now an infamous confrontation outside
the Gates home near Harvard this month are actually related through common
Irish lineage -- one of the more extraordinary aspects of the incident that has
sparked worldwide headlines.
Gates is one of many famous African-Americans with Irish heritage, including
President Barack Obama and award-winning author Alice Walker.
On the PBS series, Gates visits Trinity College to find his roots, and says to
the genealogist, "Do I look like an Irishman to you? I'm here to find my roots.
I've been looking all over Africa and I couldn't find anybody, so I ended up
here.
"I'm descended from a white man, he says. "A white man who slept with a black
slave. And we know from the analysis of my DNA that ... goes back to Ireland.
So maybe you can help me."
When the genealogist tells him he does indeed have Irish links, Gates says, "I
find this oddly moving. It is astonishing," he says, "that I have a kinship
with someone (Niall of the Nine Hostages) dating back to the fourth century
A.D."
Millions of Irish Americans, especially those in New York, may be directly
descended, like Gates, from Niall of the Nine Hostages, the most prolific
warrior in Irish history.
A team of geneticists at Trinity College led by professor Dan Bradley have
discovered that as many as 3 million men worldwide may be descendents of the
Irish warlord, who was the Irish "High King" at Tara, the ancient center of
Ireland from A.D. 379 to A.D. 405.
The story of Niall of the Nine Hostages is already the stuff of legend, which
has been passed on to countless Irish schoolchildren over the years.
The supposedly fearless leader battled the English, the Scots, the French and
even the Romans, and struck fear into the heart of his enemies. His dynasty
lasted for centuries, continuing up until the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland
at the end of the 16th century.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8195564&page=1
http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2007/12/28/famous-dna-review-part-iii-niall-of-the-nine-hostages/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds