Recent DNA studies show clear links of the Irish with the people of Spain and Portugal. Some people claim Irish kinship with the Basques, but there is the language problem. The Irish, Spanish and Portuguese languages, like almost every other European language, are closely related and have a common Indo-European root. The Basque language is unrelated and quite different to those in the rest of Europe. It has been claimed that they are survivors of the original Palaeolithic people and that the Indo-Europeans colonised Europe later. Other writers insist that the Basques came from Atlantis and that is why their language is so different.

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