I would agree with some of your points, but R1b is middle eastern and most associated with Iranian peoples. I is the only native male haplogroup in Europe today, the rest have gone extinct. R split from IJ much earlier. The links are old sure but I have not read anything lately that would debunk the Iberian Gaelic theory, I am sure its not that cut and dry, but surely R1b is not native to Ireland in any case.
"The R1b branch would have originated in eastern Anatolia and/or northern Mesopotamia/Syria during the Early Neolithic period, where they probably domesticated cattle and became primarily cattle herders. Then would have migrated to the western part of the Iranian plateau, crossed the Caucasus to the Pontic Steppe in search for pasture for their cattle, where they mixed to some extent with I2a2 and R1a tribes that inhabited those lands. The maternal lineages of these Near Eastern R1b people would have included haplogroups H5a, H6, H8, H15, I1a1, J1b1a, K1a3, K2a6, U5, and some V subclades (like V15)."
https://www.eupedia.com/europe/origi...rope.shtml#R1b
I would agree their ethnogenesis doe's not begin in Spain and their Steppe ancestry goes to further their claim that they descend from Scythian who entered West Europe from North Africa. I am saying they became Westernized in Spain and the Welsh are more Iberian Genetically. But there is a fair portion of Gaels that were probably Iberian that came along for the ride. They are about as Iberian as the Vandals were, but they are partially Iberian in their history none the less. The same way Turkish people are called Turks but not really Turks.
The advent of farming in Ireland lies at the temporal and geographical terminus of several thousand years of transition across Europe and seems to occur rapidly ∼ 3750 BC (47). The nature of this transition remains a long-standing archaeological controversy between proposals of migration by incoming farmers versus those of adoption of agriculture by indigenous Mesolithic populations (48⇓⇓–51). The Irish MN female farmer (3343–3020 cal. BC) from a Megalithic tomb in Ballynahatty near Belfast affords, to our knowledge, a first direct genetic view of the transition at Europe’s western edge. She displays predominant ancestry from early farmers that ultimately originated in migrating agriculturists from the Near East. This derivation is attested by her PCA and ADMIXTURE profile, her correlated allele frequencies with other Neolithic genomes, reflected in D statistics, and by her haplotypic affinity with modern southern Mediterranean populations such as Sardinians. Her early European farmer coefficient is estimated at ∼60%; an ancestry which is difficult to reconcile with extensive indigenous adoption of agriculture in Ireland only several hundred years earlier. She shares higher levels of genetic drift with Early and MN samples from Spain rather than those from Germany,
supporting a link between the early farming cultures of Atlantic Europe and arguing for the possible passage of farming to Ireland via a southern coastal route rather than via the migrations through central Europe (2). A high affinity to Scandinavian farmer, Gok2 is more difficult to interpret as it is associated with the TRB (Funnelbeaker) culture whose origins are generally derived from Central European farming cultures but perhaps it is noteworthy that this later sample is also recovered from a Megalithic context.
https://www.pnas.org/content/113/2/368
Originally Posted by PaleoEuropean
The epicanthic fold is common in Irish of Iberian decent. It is a result of breeding with Cro-Magnon phenotypes while being from the Aryan and North Africans or vice versa. They have a reduction in some traits and others are compounded. The Scandinavian slant eyes are mostly Brunn and Tronder. I have seen tons of rednecks that look just like him here in America.
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