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There is a claim I often see online that people from the western coast of Ireland are genetically somehow Basque or Spanish like, in contrast to people in Northern Ireland and along the east coast who are more British-like.
But from what genetic studies show, this could not be further from the truth. In fact, the British have more southern-shifting ancestry than the Irish do, and the differences within Ireland are not so much east to west, as much as it is that there are isolated pockets throughout the country with more or less foreign mixture, but none of them plot near Basques.
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