Irish people have an incredibly stable genetic makeup that goes back not just to the Roman Empire, not just to the Celts before the Roman Empire, but back to to the times of ancient Egypt, at the very beginning of the Bronze Age

Land and power was a zero-sum game back then, the fortunes of a lineage were fickle and tied to a fortunes of a single man. The winner took it all and the loser lost everything. These lineages are living historical records, testaments to ancient conquests, bloodshed, war, to victors and the vanquished.