It was with interest that I read the above mail.My grandmother was an O'BRIEN and I tried looking them up.I found a book titled:"IFYOU'RE A WEE BIT IRISH"which traced the IRISH back through JAPHETH,the son of NOAH and back to ADAM,THE RED MAN.If anyone has read this book,I would like their opinion..But in accordance with the title of this E-mail,it would appear that the IRISH are a race apart.Not only does it go back to ADAM,it traces them through the SCYTHIANS (He says the Greeks believed some of their Gods were ancestors of the SCYTHIANS).Down through a Pharoh of Egypt.The COOKS go back through William De BURGO.to William BURK of Galway (1320 AD).This makes an interesting concersation piece regardless of its autheticity.Leo