Seems to be getting a few down votes. No one likes to be called dumb.

But I do think its an issue worth exploring. I think he’s underestimating the IQ of irish by a few points, I see 95 to 97 in a few places.

Alcoholism and extreme poverty/ malnutrition might have kept them down for a few centuries under the british potato regime. But I think thats been corrected for in the last 50 years or so and the micks are still a few points down compared to the english.

I could not find a number for welsh IQ or Cornish IQ but Scottish IQ seems to be about 97 which sounds about right, i.e. similar to the Irish. I believe he’s making too much of a distinction between Q celts and P celts. They were largely the same gang of people conquering and intermarrying with the local older populations.

I know a little about successive european migrations, maybe not enough to speak too definitively. But it seems to me ireland and britain have almost all the same founding populations only in slightly different proportions. Britons have plenty of that pre-indoeuropean stock he’s referring to. SE England seems to have a bit more germanic DNA. The english are essentially germanic-welsh rape babies, which seems to have given them a little edge.

But maybe more importantly than any of these origin stories is in fact the pressures of the last 2000 years or so. I do think things like the black plague could have been influential. Also catholicism and non reproducing priestly casts. Perhaps the celtic clann political structure was too egalitarian? Perhaps the germanics culled a lot of the weaklings when they invaded the brithonics? Perhaps the fact that britain was more populated made britons subjected to more competition?

Pushed the British troops out and created a republic with a few militants.

Low IQ?

Irish are like the niggers of the White race. Violent, aggressive, low contribution to society and constant boasting, ie: "Proud to be Irish" when they have nothing to really be proud of.

What makes you say that? Every race and nationality has it's dolts. Those are the ONLY ones we SHOULD be dealing with. Niggers are WIDESPREAD general stupidity the WORLD OVER for MILLENIA. WHO has decided to CONCEAL that from everyone else?

we use IQ to achieve something and maybe they just didn't need it for the Irish way of life.

now intelegence and IQ are different:

intelligence is when you do something that is for your longlasting welfare. its descions made with consideration for which we dislike.

IQ is an abstract test to show how well a person is at high-level occupational skills that trickle down into mundane articles like fast talking a client or recognizing resources or whatnot.

im telling ya, i myself rather not turn into a feasting person because it would dement myself into losing a better calm, access to better happiness. the things the so called smart people seek and how misaligned they are with what is real is spectacular.

i gotta find what the buddha says about this: "What's skillful? What's unskillful? What, when I do it, will lead to my long-term welfare and happiness? What, when I do it, will lead to my long-term harm and suffering?" Why are these questions wise? Because they come from seeing that the issue of how to find a worthwhile happiness is something you really are responsible for. Happiness is preferable to suffering, it depends on your actions, and long-term happiness is better than short-term. This is what's meant by "skillful."

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/meditations5.html "wisdom for dummies" is where i ripped the exerpt. its from a cannon passage surely.

Dont the Irish have pretty women and kind living for the most part? not too bad off.