Are Irish Anglo-Saxon?
No, the Irish are Gaels, as are the Manx (Isle of Man) and the Highland Scots. The English are often referred to as Anglo-Saxon, though in both cases, it is a bit more complicated than that. The main difference is that the Gaels are Celtic, and the Anglo-Saxons are Germanic. But English and Irish are nationalities, so you don’t have to be a Gael to be Irish, nor an Anglo-Saxon to be English. The far right in some English speaking countries have tried to hijack the Anglo-Saxons for their own ends. In Britain, they have also recently tried to hijack the image of the Spitfire. I think that the Anglo-Saxons who founded England would be as perplexed by the far right, as todays WW2 veterans are.
the current peoples of ireland certainly have large amounts of anglo-saxon stock in it, while historically ireland was settled by ‘Celtic’ people, since then waves of first viking and later English settlers arrived and mixed with the celtic population. The English began arriving in Ireland in the 11th-12th Century’s colonising areas around Dublin, when the Henry VIII began the Protestant reformation tens of thousands of English catholics left and settled in Ireland rather than convert to the new Protestant religion, this continued into the reign of Elizabeth 1st. after that a new wave of settlers arrived in northern Ireland 2/3rds of which were Scottish, so added to the mix were further Scottish and Pictish genes.
No. In the 5th Century, Germanic tribes like the Angles and the Saxons started to settle in the British Isles. Their cultures were so similar that sooner or later they started to merge into one. The name England actually comes from Angle-land after the Germanic tribe. The native people of the British isles were Celtic in origin. When the Anglo-Saxon tribes started to come in they forcefully pushed the Celtic tribes into far reaching territories like Scotland, Wales, and Cornwall. The Germanic tribes never made it to Ireland leaving it Celtic in culture. Anglo-Saxons did, and actually still do occupy Ireland in the form of the English. English invasions of Ireland started as early as the 12th century though some would argue it was a Norman invasion. It continued into the present and the English set up colonies there to weed out the Irish. Cromwell in the 17th century actually sent Irish people to work on plantations in the Caribbean just to rid the island of them and get free labor in t
