A decade ago, Irish pub owner Bertie Currie was clearing land behind his pub in order to make room for a driveway. While digging behind McCuaig’s Bar in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Currie discovered the tomb of three human beings underneath a large, flat stone. As The Washington Post reports, Currie’s discovery could alter the way we look at Irish history forever: [W]hat Currie had stumbled over was an ancient burial that, after a recent DNA analysis, challenges the traditional centuries-old account of Irish origins. From as far back as the 16th century, historians taught that the Irish are the descendants of the Celts, an Iron Age people who originated in the middle of Europe and invaded Ireland somewhere between 1000 B.C. and 500 B.C. A photo of McCuaig’s Bar on Rathlin Island in Northern Ireland. Ancient bones were unearthed on the property in 2006. (Photo by Mairead Ni Rodaigh) That story has inspired innumerable references linking the Irish with Celtic culture. The Nobel-winning Irish poet William Butler Yeats titled a book “Celtic Twilight.” Irish songs are deemed “Celtic” music. Some nationalists embraced the Celtic distinction. And in Boston, arguably the most Irish city in the United States, the owners [...]