Blood of the Celts Quotes

“could pre-date the Celts in Britain. The bearers of I2a2a1a1 (M284) have a mixed bag of surnames including English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish. Its descendant clade I2a2a1a1a1 (L126/S165) is more common in Scotland. Its”
― Jean Manco, Blood of the Celts: The New Ancestral Story

“To judge by the estimated date that it burgeoned into sub-lineages, it was one of the I2 family that travelled with early farmers. So it could”
― Jean Manco, Blood of the Celts: The New Ancestral Story

“Its offshoot I2a2a1a1a1a (S7753) includes men of several surnames of Irish Gaelic origin, such as McGuinness, Callahan, McConville and McManus, indicating that S7753 arrived in Ireland before the development of surnames. The estimated date of the haplogroup is around AD 500, which makes a neat fit to the earliest reference to the Cruithin in AD 552 (see p. 169).41 84 Tree of Y-DNA haplogroup I2a2a1a1 (M284).”
― Jean Manco, Blood of the Celts: The New Ancestral Story