For those with a geneology bent...

Ha! My dad just sent his in. I believe we'll find a decent proportion of Nordic DNA.

The research indicates that Irish origins do not include the Celts. The Irish existed in Ireland at least a thousand years before the Celts arrived — if they even "arrived" in Ireland. Whoever the Celts were, or whatever Celtic culture is, it did not spread from Central Europe into Ireland. Just the opposite appears true. Some form of Celtic culture may have begun in places like Ireland and spread to Central Europe.

While there may today be a cultural identity considered Irish-Celtic, it is mostly based upon literature and on misconceptions of history rather than on evidence in genetics or in the movements of ethnic groups in ancient history.

This is all similar to the myth of there being a "white" or "Caucasian" race. There is no evidence of any such thing as either. The term "white" has been used at various times in history to include or exclude certain ethnic groups. But there are no genetic roots to determine who is white or not. It's a cultural myth originating in pseudo-science and social prejudice — not in genetics.

But whichever groups are arbitrarily considered "white," it is well know and documented that they did not originate around the Caucasus region of Europe. So the Irish were not Celts and Whites were not Caucasians, but who knows how long the mythical distinction will remain a part of questionnaires on racial origins?

I have never considered myself white, but when I was young, I was told that I was white, Caucasian, and part Irish. Now that I am older, I find that I am a darker-tanned, mixed-up blend of who-knows-what. I kind of like my new identity.

At least here in Upstate NY, which has a strong immigrant past: people in my father's generation are predominantly one or two ethnicities, people of my generation are a mix of two to four ethnicities, and people of my children's generation might not have any predominant ethnicity. My paternal grandparents were a mixed-ethnicity couple, much to the chagrin of both groups. So I identify as 50% Irish, 25% German, and 25% Italian. Thankfully, I ended up with the best of each: Italian skin, German stubbornness, and Irish temper. And I can hold my whiskey, beer, AND wine!

You made a wiccan mad, so she made you a newt. You caused your own bent geneology.

His new form is for the better.

It has to be paired with an Irish temper.