Harvard Professor Gates Is Half-Irish, Related to Cop Who Arrested HimBy NIALL O'DOWD
ABC News
IrishCentral.com Publisher
July 28, 2009
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the black professor at the center of the racial story involving his arrest outside his Harvard University-owned house, has spoken proudly of his Irish roots.
Strangely enough, he and the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested him, Sgt. James Crowley, both trace their ancestry back to the legendary Niall of the Nine Hostages.
In a PBS series on African-American ancestry that he hosted in 2008, Gates discovered his Irish roots when he found he was descended from an Irish immigrant and a slave girl.
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O, the irony! Dr. Henry Louis Gates is Irish and half White, like Barack Obama. He is even related to Sergeant James Crowley through Nial of the Nine Hostages. 2 percent of New Yorkers are descendant of Nial of the Nine Hostages.
http://www.dnaancestryproject.com/ydna_intro_famous.php?id=niall