Colin Farrell
Farrell in 2011, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Colin James Farrell
Place of Birth: Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland
Date of Birth: 31 May, 1976
Ethnicity: Irish
Colin Farrell is an Irish actor. He has had leading roles in the films Tigerland, Minority Report, Daredevil, Phone Booth, S.W.A.T., A Home at the End of the World, Alexander (2004), Miami Vice, In Bruges, Horrible Bosses, Fright Night, Total Recall (2012), Seven Psychopaths, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Widows, and The Banshees of Inisherin.
He is the son of Rita (Monaghan) and Eamon Farrell. His uncle was footballer Tommy Farrell. Both his father and uncle played for Shamrock Rovers FC. Colin has two sons, one with Kim Bordenave and one with Polish actress Alicja Bachleda-Curuś.
A 23andMe DNA test taken by Colin stated that his genetic ancestry is:
*98.7% Irish
Colin’s maternal grandfather was named James P. “Jimmy” Monaghan.
Colin’s maternal grandmother is Elizabeth Jackson (the daughter of Thomas Jackson and Elizabeth Anne Carthy). Thomas was the son of Thomas Jackson and Mary Mooney. Elizabeth was the daughter of Christopher Carthy and Hannah Tyrrell.
Colin’s matrilineal ancestry can be traced back to his fourth great-grandmother, Anna Simpson.
Sources: Genealogy of Colin Farrell (focusing on his mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Marriage record of Colin’s maternal great-grandparents, Thomas Jackson and Elizabeth Anne Carthy – https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie
Birth record of Colin’s maternal great-grandfather, Thomas Jackson – https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie
Marriage record of Colin’s maternal great-great-grandparents, Thomas Jackson and Mary Mooney – https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie
Birth record of Colin’s maternal great-grandmother, Elizabeth Anne Carthy – https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie
Colin’s maternal great-grandmother, Elizabeth Anne Carthy, on the 1901 Irish census – http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie
Marriage record of Colin’s maternal great-great-grandparents, Christopher Carthy and Hannah Tyrrell – https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie
Birth record of Colin’s maternal great-great-grandfather, Christopher Carthy – https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie
Birth record of Colin’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Hannah Tyrrell – https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie
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Nearly 50% of the Irish have DARK hair. We are more genetically related to Iberia and northern France than to northern Europe, ever since the stone age.
You need to update your reading on genetics archer. The closest relations to the Irish are British and then Northern European countries like Netherlands, Norway. The majority R1b clade in Ireland is also different than the majority clade in Iberia. Read up on the latest information.
http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/geneticmapofeurope.jpg
However, genethic distance between Britain/France and Iberia is less, than distance between Britain/France and Northern Europe. Distance between Ireland/Wales/ and Northern Europe incomparably at all and closer to Iberia for sure
http://www.eupedia.com/europe/european_y-dna_haplogroups.shtml
Marc 2 that is a table of y-haplotypes not genetic distance. The above map that I posted is on autosomal dna which shows how similar dna is between populations. Also as I said the R1b in places like Spain is of a different subclade to the R1b in places like Ireland. The closest populations to Spain and Portugal are Southern France and Northern Italy.
The genetic distance between British Isles and Northern Europe is a lot closer than they are to Spain. In fact they are closer to places like Poland than they are to Spain. Ireland/Britain are very close to countries like the Netherland and Norway.
Start read a bit on the subject.
http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2008/09/01/european-genes-mirror-european-geography/
http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/wp-content/blogs.dir/474/files/2012/04/i-bb3ac5b801b60400bded2397116d34e7-Europegenetics.jpg
@that is a table of y-haplotypes not genetic distance.@
Alice. but you can calculate percentage of similarity having the latest data.
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@The above map that I posted is on autosomal dna which shows how similar dna is between populations@
This map reflects different clusters in Europe and doesn’t show the genethic propinquity Britain with Northern Europe, moreover latest large scale migrations between Western European countries occured 4-5 thousands years ago, it is obvious that there’re different subclades nowadays.
Spectrum of subclades of the Northern European lands is strikingly different from Western Europe. It is impossible that Atlantic populations with total predominant haplogroup R1b M-269 may be closer to Germanic populations (wich have clusters with large imbalance of R1b,R1a,I1,I2b etc). than to each other.
For example, some Irish with R1b-L-23 are incomparable closer to some Spanish with R-1b-R-M-153,than some Northern German with I1b or R1a, cause descended from one ancestor R1b-S-116.
@Marc 2. If countries cluster together it is because they have similar genes. Is that so difficult to understand?
R1b came from the East to the West. If is only the y chromosome and a tiny portion of the genome and France is where it diverged and a different branch went to Iberia and a different branch went to the British Isles. Half of Germany is R1b. Autosomal dna is used to show the closeness of populations not y dna. Y dna is good for tracking migrations. There are people in the same country that have different y haplotypes. One cousin could be R1b and and other cousin could be R1a but they would be very similar in autosomal dna because they are family.
Here is another dna map.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8025/7608896776_68881b6829_b.jpg
I’ve already mentioned, that modern European populations arrived to these lands many thousands years ago, so they had contacts to neighbours for all THIS TIME, till now, it is obvious. If we’re talking about COMMON GENETHIC ORIGIN of them, so huge majority of male population of Western European countries have common origin, unlike Northern Europeans
@R1b came from the East to the West. If is only the y chromosome and a tiny portion of the genome and France is where it diverged and a different branch went to Iberia and a different branch went to the British Isles.@
No, common ancestors S-116 Western Europeans lived both in Britan and Iberia
http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v19/n1/fig_tab/ejhg2010146f1.html#figure-title
@Half of Germany is R1b@
Depending on region, but less than half, in any part of country
ahaha chuvash http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8025/7608896776_68881b6829_b.jpg
This data is very uninformative. All of the European populations is so close to each other by autosome matching, that it’s no use. It is only suitable when you compare remote populations, smth like from Balkan area and North-Western Europe. And for sure, Western Europe and Eastern Europe, and even then, similarity among them would be strong. So comparison of clusters is more reliable than anything to detect genethic kinship of different populations
So all these autosomal studies mean zilch. Is that what your saying? It shows what populations are the closest to each other. How can it be uninformative and yet y-dna is? There are people in Africa with R1b so are they close to the Spanish? If you get a dna test and what to know what populations you descend from they use autosomal dna. Do you go on any dna forums to learn about the subject?
Here’s another one showing more populations.
If the Spanish are closer to the Irish/British they should be in that big cluster showing British/German/Irish/Orcadian.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8211/8437291103_92212c88bf_o.png
Uninformative and “zilch” are synonyms? Of course autosomal method is inferior in terms of genethic origin. What it can show? Britain close to Netherlands, Netherlands would be close to Germany, Germany would close to Poland, Poland would be close to Ukraine, Ukraine would be close to Russia, Russia would be close to Tatars, Tatars would be close Chuvash, Mongols would be close to China etc. it is generally known without genethic analysis.
These genetic maps uninformative all the more so! On one map Hungary is located where it must be geographically, on the another map Hungary covers the France ))) On one map Germany doesn’t exist at all, on the second it also located geographically correct, on the third map Germany is integral with Brit. Isles. What should i think? All of these maps are very different from each other. Is some designers-genethics draw these maps as he wants? Which of these map right?
If a country isn’t sampled it isn’t going to be included in the map. You don’t seem to know much about population genetics. If you don’t want to research it that’s up to you.
Autosomal dna is the only way to show population similarities and differences. Neighbouring countries all have close genetic relationships. That makes sense. The more distant a country is the less similarity. Spain is of course closer genetically to her neighbours Portugal, southern France and Northern Italy. Why would countries separated by distance and seas show a particularly close genetic relationship?
As i thought, autosomal DNA data only confirmed theory about virtual border, which extends through the Central Europe. Atlanto-mediterranean component decreases to the east, and so-called North-Eastern component increases accordingly. So this is possible to calculate more precise ratio in the form of diagrams
http://s2.ipicture.ru/uploads/20130620/iQ3RCdbd.png
http://s019.radikal.ru/i623/1303/9b/9e4d45cf3fa0.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/844/37tv.jpg
Unfortunetly researchers who done this work, concentrated on Eastern Europe, however it is clearly seen correlation between all of the European areas, including Western Europe. By percentage on the main components of region we’re interested in, it would look like this
The most similar to Britain are France and Norway
, difference is about 15 %
Then, Germany, 20-21 %
Then, Spain-Portugal- 28-30 %
Poland has difference with Brit. Isles around 50 %
And surely, autosomal data isn’t solution to all problems, it is just one of the elements in complicated scheme. Concerning the origin and interaction of popualtions this method is used by researhers only together with Mito and Y-DNA data.
Well good on you Marc for looking into the subject. I don’t really understand all your post but Western Britain is most similar to Ireland and Eastern Britain is more similar to the Netherlands. Brittany has a connection to Britain (Brittany means “Little Britain”) because a lot of Cornish and Welsh Celts went there in the 5th Century to escape the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. Autosomal dna covers all you genome and is the only way to show population similarities. Y dna just covers a a tiny proportion of your genome and is useful for population movements but not for showing how similar a population is. Look into the subject more. It is very interesting.
Sorry, my English isn’t good enough.So if you don’t understand smth. please, tell me what concretely.
Theory about 5 century AD migrations to Brittany from Britain is more mythologized even than “Anglo-Saxon invasion”. There’s absolutely no historical sources which confirmed this. However, yes, i agree that Welsh/Cornish woulb be closer to Western France than to Eastern England, which in turn would be closer to Low Countries, this is logical, cause these areas located close to each other and had contacts for many and many thousands years, till now.
Results of autosomal analysis, can show only close contacts of all of the Europeans,what is well known by archaeological and historical data for many years. Difference between all of the Western Europeans from Spain to Gemany less than 50%. All Europe is similar by autosomal data.
But, this discussion started from archer’s notion that Ireland more related to Iberia and Northern France. And if he meant relation by patrilineal dna, so he was absolutely right. It is more objective criterion for determination of historical and anthropological interaction and common origin for sure.
Marc 2 your English is very good but even if you look at y-dna Ireland doesn’t have a direct relationship with Spain. R1b dna is the most common all over Western Europe and the clade that is the majority in Ireland is different than the clade that is majority in Iberia. The most diversity for R1b is further East. All R1b came from the East and went through Germany and a different branch went through Southern France into Iberia and another branch went through Northern France into the Briain and Ireland.
http://jowsey.com/genealogy/genetic/R1b-migration.png
Autosomal dna makes up the majority of someone’s dna so if someone’s autosomal dna is similar to someone else it shows a genetic relationship. Y-dna will not show how close a population is because it is only one ancestor from many eons ago. As I said it is good for tracing people’s movements through the centuries. It also doesn’t show anything about the female line.
Also the People of the British Isles Project shows a genetic link with Wales, Southern England and Brittany. The Bretons also speak an insular Celtic which has a relationship to present day Welsh and came from the British Isles so it there was a definite movement of people from Southern Britain to Brittany. Even Brittany means Little Britain.
He looks like Andre Agassi, who is of Assyrian descent (people indigenous in Syria, Iraqi, Turkey and Iran).
And yet a man with this looks is full Irish, which is in Northern Europe? Odd…interesting though…I would think that he’s Welsh or English rather than Irish.
Colin looked like Agassi in that sextape becoz of the shaved head
first of all,ireland is not exactly in northern europe its more western than northern,and most irish do look like his,ryan reynolds,george best,hurricane higgins etc…why are you trying to hide what you guys(great britain)really are!!!
No one is trying to hide anything but Colin has darker colouring than the “average” Irish person. Ireland is situated in North Western Europe. It is as North as Denmark going by geography. A lot of people obviously haven’t been to Europe and think that someone with dark hair and brown eyes makes them not Northern European. Look at the lead singer from Of Monsters and Men. She is Icelandic and is a brown eyed brunette. Every nationality has people with dark brown hair and brown eyes. Some populations have that colouring in the majority but the further North you go in Europe there is a higher incidence of blue eyes and fair hair. The Irish are majority brown haired but a very light eyed population.
My Irish family is as dark as he is, easily.
With brown or hazel eyes too, I might add. Blue eyes are prevalent in Ireland (approx 70%) but that still leaves 30% with hazel and brown.
There are also a lot of green eyes in Ireland. So that would be part of that figure as well.
also Agassi is half Anglo-American
Ew fuck no. That Andre guy is ugly compared to Colin, don’t insult him like that.
he will be in total recall remake
So
it’s so hysterical to read some of those dumb comments when there’s an irish/british/welsh celeb like Catherine Zeta-jones , Orlando Bloom or Colin Ferrel, they immediately assume they’re either italian,spanish, greek or even french for being close to mediterranian. you all people need to get a life. Not everyone can have light skin or hair regardless what nationality /ethnicity you got. we’re all the same, people need to stop judging and writing crap. and if a british / irish/welsh celeb have blonde hair blue eye are either of swedish ,norwegian or danish blood
jut look at him gorgeous i need a man like this oh yeah
I think he’s very average looking
i agree