Classify some Wessex Morris Men from 'King Arthur's West Country' of Dorset.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Is you mother from the same place as the guys of this thread? If yes, maybe they really have some Irish in them

What makes you think these English country folk men are Irish?!

Here's some more people from the West Country of SW England:





I think something Dorset folk have in common with the Irish though... is a dislike of Cromwell.

Oliver Cromwell crushed the rebels in Dorset who rebelled against him and who sided with the King in England during the English Civil War between the roundheads and the cavaliers.

Oliver Cromwell caused a genocide of 1 million Irish people by scorching their potato fields and causing a Great Potato Famine in Eire. So the Irish dub Cromwell as 'Hitler'.

Irish people and their rebellious hearts...


British and Irish people are very similar in features though, so I guess that's why you think they're Irish.

I think the south-west of England has more ancient native British blood than the east of England. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes pushed the Celts into the western fringes of England, and into Wales and Scotland and Ireland and the Isle of Man. (Legend has it that King Arthur won his greatest battle against the Saxons at Badbury Rings in Dorset.)

Maiden Castle in Dorset is Europe's largest hill fortress and it was built by Celts to keep out the Roman invaders.

A lot of the ancient stone circles such as Stonehenge are still carefully preserved in south-west England, along with the sacred ancient spiritual site of Glastonbury, etc.

A mass grave of beheaded Vikings was found in Dorset as the locals defended their land.

King Alfred the Great kept the Danes out of the south of England and Wales when England was divided into two kingdoms.

[Rædwald]

Most of my English ancestry seems to come from the South West, but I have very little to no Irish DNA