Ulster is British
Introduction
This revised article consisted originally just of a couple key points of the summary from a booklet; 'The Roots of the British - A Study of the Origins of the British People' by Stephen J. Brady BSc (Hons), ARCS, Cert Ed.
This revision has been supplemented with the text of a short article originally published in 'Spearhead' magazine No.371, January 2000. Any readers interested in subscribing to 'Spearhead' should write for details to Spearhead, c/o PO. Box 117, Welling, Kent, United Kingdom, DA16 3DW.
The excerpts reprinted here deal with the history of Ulster, and expose the false arguments of Irish republicans, and those campaigning for devolution in Scotland and Wales. The British Nation website feels it is important for this information to be made widely known as possible due to the success of the lies of I.R.A/Sinn Fein, and the misconceptions of the British people and of Nationalists overseas especially in the U.S.
'It follows that there is no ethnic justification for "Celtic separatism". The peoples among whom this is espoused, the Irish, Scots, and Welsh, are neither Celtic nor separate. The homeland of Celtic culture - there has never been such a thing as a Celtic race - in our lands was originally England. Where it may have been imposed by a minority of Immigrant invading overlords. Or it may have developed as part of a common Celtic cultural heartland extending from the South of Scotland to the Alps. Thence this culture spread to Wales and Cornwall where it survived to the present day, and Cumbria and Southern Scotland where it did not. Ireland and Northern Scotland were inhabited by a people whose culture was not affected at first by the development of "Celiticity" in England. They were called Pretani or, in Gaelic, Cruthin, from the former of which Britain probably gets her name. In Ireland, they were conquered by an Immigrant minority, the Gaels, from the Celtiberian culture of Spain. The Cruthin of Ulster long kept their freedom, and, even when Gaelicised in speech, moved in large numbers to Scotland to avoid rule by the Gaelic Ui Niall kings of Southern Ireland. That in turn brought the Gaelic language to Scotland, where it replaced the native "Pictish" Cruthinic tongues. Today the "Celtic" peoples are indistinguishable from the English ethnically, save for higher incidences of dark-haired Mediterranid type genes amongst them, which are certainly of pre-Celtic origin. Of course, today most 'Celts' have much English blood and most English much 'Celtic' blood, in terms of their ancestry. We are one people. One nation - The British."
--Source: The Roots of the British, by Stephen J.Brady, (p36)
"The British people of Ulster are not alien "Planters" settled on the native Irish. They are the native Irish - more native to Ireland than the alien Gaelic culture promoted by Irish separatists and Republicans. Their stock today is blended of Scottish Cruthin who returned in the 17th Century to the homeland in Ulster their ancestors left a thousand years earlier. Together with the descendants of Ulster Cruthin who stayed on the land during a millennium of Gaelic alien rule, many of whom were assimilated in culture and religion to their Scots kinsfolk after the "Plantation". The "Plantation" in reality the Return of the Cruthin. Ironically many of the heroes extolled by today's Irish Republicans were Cruthinic Ulstermen. For example, Cuchulainn, Champion of Ulster, died fighting to prevent the United Ireland in support of whom his name is now so often invoked. By Southern Irish separatists themselves of Cruthin stock, their true identity not that of their Gaelic overlord but Cruthin - Pretanni - Britons! Ulster has been British not for 300 but for over 3000 years.
--Source: The Roots of the British, by Stephen J.Brady, (p36)
Nationalist myth challenged
Two leading archaeologists have recently produced evidence of the Irish which badly dents the theory of distinct Celtic ethnicity which forms an important part of the basis of Irish Nationalism.
Richard Warner, of the Ulster Museum in Belfast, said in an address to the Irish Association for Cultural, Economic and Social Relations that:-
"In round terms, the image of the Irish as a genetically Celtic people - in fact the whole idea of a Celtic ethnicity and of Celtic peoples, Irish, Welsh and all the rest of it - is a load of complete cock and bull. The average Irish person probably has more English genes than Celtic."
It was only in the 18th and 19th centuries, Warner says, that the idea of a common Celtic origin caught on, acting as a wellspring of Irish Nationalism. Since the 1920s, Irish children have been taught that the Celts or Gaels settled the country and became the predominant racial group in the 5th or 6th century BC.
The evidence of archaeology, Warner argued, is that most Irish people are descended not from the Celts but from Mesolithic hunters and fishermen who arrived around 8000 BC, possibly from Scotland. English invaders, he said, exerted the next greatest influence.
The Celts blossomed as a distinct civilisation around the 5th century BC, but although they were a distinct ethnic group within Central Europe they had no significant effect on the Irish gene pool, Warner continued. "If you find Celtic blood lines now, it will probably be among the Germans."
After prehistoric settlers, Irish leaders such as Brian Boru (born in AD 921) established proper kingdoms. But from about 1170 AD the English began arriving in Waves of invasion after Dermot McMurragh, the King of Leinster, invited Richard de Clare, an Anglo-Norman warlord, to help him settle a dynastic dispute. The campaigns of Elizabeth I and Cromwell settled English tenants and former soldiers in Ireland.
In terms of the availability to recognise present DNA values, said Warner, the intrusion of English blood and Southern Scottish would be larger than any other group apart from the original Mesolithic inhabitants.
Professor Jim Mallory, an archaeologist and linguist from Queens University, Belfast, agreed, saying:-
"If you believe the Celtic languages spread late in pre-history, they were accompanied by a minimal population movement. There is no evidence in the archaeological record for a large influx of a foreign population."
Even Celtic music may be no more than a marketing ploy. According to Tommy Munnelly, Chairman of the Irish Traditional Music Archive, "We have no idea what kind of music the Celts played."
Warner believes his case will be proven next year when the Royal Irish Academy completes its genetic map of Ireland. Thousands of DNA samples will be analysed and compared with genes from skeletons found by archaeologists.
According to Warner, whose findings were quoted in a report in The Sunday Times of 14th November:-
"There is a final irony in Ireland's 'Celtic' origin. The Aran islands off Galway, whose population is partly descended from a settlement of Cromwell's soldiers, is one of the last refuges of the Irish language. Aran is going to be the last bastion of the spoken Irish, so the Irish language will die in the mouths of the English."